How to improve the Hot Offers thread idea?

This is a thread to discuss how we can improve the Hot Offers thread, which I originally proposed as a place to post up offers and arb opportunities so that people could be *notified* whenever a new offer was added to the thread.

This was to make sure that we all get on as many decent offers as possible, and to ensure that we had a central place to share great offers in our lovely wee community here on Matt’s site.

The original thread is here, in case you have no idea what I am talking about…

https://matchedbettingblog.com/topic/the-hot-offers-thread-no-chat-offers-only-please/#.VmWtiPm8PCN

It only works (well) if people refrain from asking questions, posting ‘thank you’ replies and stick to the golden rule of only posting offers 😉

On the flipside, people should be able to ask questions, poke holes in theory and offer thanks when they want to… (just not on that thread! haha!)

Other problems with the existing thread:
– the initial (and ongoing) swathe of “I’m in” posts just to subscribe (partly my fault as I did mention this as one of the ‘sign up’ options in my OP)
– it is getting really long making it slow to open and hard to navigate

Now, firstly, whatever we come up with, people should SUBSCRIBE to the thread by clicking the Subscribe button, as opposed to replying to the thread.

Personally, I like the idea that somebody suggested which was basically:
1. Have a separate Hot Offers thread each month (I am happy to be responsible for creating these)
2. If you want to share a deal, then you would create a SEPARATE, dedicated thread just about your deal (which could be home to any discussion, questions, thanks, etc…)
3. You then post a link to your thread in the main Hot Offers thread, thus making sure that anyone subscribed to that thread will see the deal/offer

What do you all think? Any better/different/other suggestions?

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December 7, 2015 at 4:25 pm

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beh 7 December 8, 2015 at 12:46 pm

I agree with STC, it’s too much to have in one thread that’s never going to please everyone. Using the new offers sub forum to post each tip individually with a clear title would be good, and removes the need for anyone to post another thread with discussion/questions/thanks as happens now.

I don’t mind the smaller enhanced odds providing people are clear on the potential profit (i.e. max bet). More than happy to take a couple quid if I’m already logged in as it only takes a minute, offers like the paddy messenger are great but somewhat rare.

Strict rules would be useful perhaps but it’s potentially a lot of time/effort for someone to moderate.

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Tony 12 December 8, 2015 at 2:11 pm

@beh said: “Using the new offers sub forum to post each tip individually with a clear title would be good”

That misses the main point though – people want to be notified when a new deal is posted.

It looks like someone will just post up a new Hot Offers thread when the current one gets too ‘busy’, which I guess is fine in the absence of any co-ordinated alterantive

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mike j 11 December 8, 2015 at 4:01 pm

Hi Tony (am posting here because i assume you subscribed to this thread and i dont want to spam the hot offer) The ladbrokes offer you just posted, i cant seem to see the promotion on the site, could it be customer specific.

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mike j 11 December 8, 2015 at 4:13 pm

apologies, just realised you started a new thread, however if you click forums>new offers there is a subscribe button at the top. this should email you with every new thread which is started

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Tony 12 December 8, 2015 at 4:23 pm

Great, I’ll do that then Mike. Many thanks

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