Yesterday we implemented a couple of updates to CouponChief.com, which are aimed at improving your browsing experience.
Trust Score
First, every coupon contributor has now been assigned a Trust Score. A user’s Trust Score is simply an indication of how reliable coupons are from a given contributor. It will be used on our website to help rank & order coupon listings, and to help our visitors quickly locate the most reliable coupons.
We calculate a contributors trust score based on 4 factors:
1. How many coupons they’ve entered over the past 30 days.
2. How reliable these coupons have been.
3. How many votes they’ve made over the past 30 days.
4. How accurate these votes have been.
Each contributor’s trust score is indicated on every coupon contibuted, and is also shown on the profile pages.
Coupon Types
Up until now, we’ve allowed users to enter “coupons” which do not require a promotion code. In place of the code, many Pays-2-Share users have been entering text such as “Click Here”, “No Code Required”, etc. From today on, these types of offers will no longer be accepted. We will allow existing coupons to stay in the system for 1 more week, at which point they will be removed.
Again, this change is meant to improve the browsing experience of our visitors, and only provide legitimate, working coupon codes.
Trust Score FAQ
What is my Trust Score?
Your Trust Score is an measure of how much reliable your contributions to CouponChief.com are. For example, if you consistently submit reliable coupons, and make reliable votes on OTHER users’ coupons, you will maintain a high Trust Score. Alternatively, if you submit “spammy”, expired, or non-functional coupons, or make erratic, unverified votes on other users’ coupons, you will have a low Trust Score.
How is my Trust Score used?
Your Trust Score is used throughout CouponChief.com to ensure a positive experience for all of our users. Coupons submitted by users with a high Trust Score will receive prioritized placement over coupons from users with lower scores. Your Trust Score will be indicated next to your name on every coupon you submit, so other users can judge whether or not your coupons are likely to be reliable. Also, votes from users with low trust scores will count for less — we don’t trust these users, so we won’t count their votes!
How is my Trust Score calculated?
Your Trust Score is based off of your contributions to our website:
1) The Reliability of Coupons You Submit - If most of your coupons receive poor votes, your Trust Score will be adversely affected.
2) The Reliability of Votes You Make - If your votes for other users’ coupons are ACCURATE (regardless of whether they are good or bad votes), your Trust Score will improve.
How is the accuracy of my votes determined? How do I ensure my votes are “accurate”?
1000’s of coupons are audited each day by Coupon Chief staff. If your votes typically agree with those of our staff, then they are considered “accurate”. The only way to ensure your votes are accurate are to try out the codes on the respective website, and vote based on whether or not the coupons work. You can vote once per day per coupon, but since all coupons eventually expire, you better re-check the status each day before you vote on a coupon — or else you may hurt your Trust Score!
What if somebody is purposely voting down my coupons to ruin my Trust Score?
These users will only be hurting themselves. Their reckless votes will lower their OWN Trust Score. Since votes from users with low trust score aren’t counted, your own trust score won’t be adversely affected.
How do I improve my Trust Score?
It’s easy…
1) Make sure the coupons your submit actually work.
2) Help the community by voting on other users’ coupons. If you make lots of accurate votes, your score will go up! Just beware, inaccurate votes will hurt your score.
