Current discount codes at SSC

[wildeagle]

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I know it has said that has been done for a while but I am staying and refreshing till 12 PST

 

[wildeagle]

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I'm sorry that SSC got inundated with calls today from people too stupid to live, but I really don't see a way this event wouldn't have happened. No one can predict how forum conversation will upset lurkers, how do we even begin to judge what conversation topics or what jokes are going to drive someone to the point of calling a business to complain about fake codes? And how many of those complaints were people who just missed the real codes and got upset enough to call anyways?

Exactly

 

[Centrocal]

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So, we can sleep now ?

 

[wildeagle]

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So, we can sleep now ?

You can sleep when you are dead

 

[Deathstalker]

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I feel like if people had the time to lurk around on these threads and try every false code, that's on them. The fact that they took it too far to go to SSC customer service shouldn't be held against the people who were just keeping this thread going throughout the entire week. There were opportunities to be notified via text or email of real codes, which never included the fake ones. Just my feelings though, I've been in here all week and it was always in good fun, nobody was ever telling somebody to try out this or that code if they weren't legit ones. The fake codes almost became like a hashtag to the event.

Bunch of lazy me me me generation kids probably. Maybe I should call SSC CS to complain to as all the aTwitter contests r unfair for me. I don't even know what a hashtag is really or what the hell I'm doing on there and probably disqualify myself anytime I enter a contest. How unfair

 

[The Rage]

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So, we can sleep now ?

Yup, all is quiet on the Spooky front

 

[melkorjunior]

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It's pretty obvious to the folks who have followed this thread literally all week straight, refreshing the page every few minutes, that the fake codes were fake. But not everyone did that. Some people--with jobs, families, other reasons they didn't have time to refresh a website a thousand times over the course of five straight days and nights--would just stop in, I assume for a few minutes, look at whatever posts mentioned codes, and try them on the Sideshow site. Unless a person was actively following the thread conversations, or the fake codes they came across were blatantly fake, they might not even realize that any fake codes were being posted at all. They would see "latest code!" in someone's posting and that's as far as they would read. And when they tried it on Sideshow's site it wouldn't work, and they would assume that it was supposed to work. I'm not sure why so many of the people who posted fake codes can't grasp that. Not everyone has been religiously following this thread all week, so they wouldn't get any of the context of what was going on, they would just be looking at raw information. I don't think they were calling Sideshow to complain about people posting fake codes--I think they called Sideshow because they honestly didn't understand why the "codes" didn't work.

And how would they even know that a blatantly fake code was supposed to be fake? Just because a code is humorous in some way, that doesn't mean it's impossible for Sideshow to have used it, as far as a newbie knows. Unless you've been following the real codes all week you wouldn't know what Sideshow's "style" was with these codes. So as far as some newbie is concerned, maybe a humorous sounding code could be real too?

I think "No Posting Fake Codes Please, No Matter How Obvious" would be a simple solution to the problem going forward, and I don't think it would be a huge sacrifice to make. There are other ways to liven up a thread besides posting fake codes.

 

[Lumos]

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Just wanted to say thanks for running the text updates! It was very much appreciated and I would have missed most of them had you not been so selfless, thanks again!

THIS X 1000!

 

[Pixelpiper]

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The Sandbox forum is members-only. Maybe this thread should be moved there. Also a bit of a shame, because I've seen folks mention in this thread that this is how they came to join the forum… But it would definitely keep out non-member lurkers.

 

[gofourindian]

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I feel like if people had the time to lurk around on these threads and try every false code, that's on them. The fact that they took it too far to go to SSC customer service shouldn't be held against the people who were just keeping this thread going throughout the entire week. There were opportunities to be notified via text or email of real codes, which never included the fake ones. Just my feelings though, I've been in here all week and it was always in good fun, nobody was ever telling somebody to try out this or that code if they weren't legit ones. The fake codes almost became like a hashtag to the event.

The only problem with that theory is even when it was posted on twitter the problems SS was having and it got back here people were still doing it. It was a big joke. People need to start taking responsibility and owning up for their actions, not pawning it off on others. It didn't bother me as much as others. But when it became aware to people it was causing a problem with SS...it should have stopped.

 

[SurlyJ]

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I wouldn't be shocked to see one last random late night code once everything thinks it's all over.

Regardless, I am very pleased. I got 1000 points in codes, plus another 200 I think from one of the twitter contests that I imagine will get posted to my account sometime next week. I won a few nick knacks in the freaktacular thread, had fun running a few contests and giving away a bunch of blu-rays, small toys and a couple nice prizes. And tonight I won a hot toy from Susan on facebook. Despite all that, I had a blast. My fiance wants to kill me for how much I've been on my phone this week, and I will definitely take a little break the next week to actually, you know, get some work done, but this has been a really cool week.

 

[EnShinNoi]

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What were the people complaining about? That the codes weren't working or that they were tricked by a fan forum?

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[CaptainChunk]

I too appreciate all the assistance everyone gave making sure as many folks as possible were able to take advantage of the codes. And the fake code drama certainly kept me amused as I constantly refreshed the page from work. Now that it's over I'm certain my wife will appreciate not hearing my phone buzz all throughout the night from the alerts I set to wake me up.

 

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

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I think "No Posting Fake Codes Please, No Matter How Obvious" would be a simple solution to the problem going forward, and I don't think it would be a huge sacrifice to make. There are other ways to liven up a thread besides posting fake codes.

Tell you what, if we can apply this same approach to people who post fake threads like "OMG NEW HT DIECAST MARK 9000!" when they see a product photo from 10 years ago, I'm in.

 

[melkorjunior]

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The Sandbox forum is members-only. Maybe this thread should be moved there. Also a bit of a shame, because I've seen folks mention in this thread that this is how they came to join the forum… But it would definitely keep out non-member lurkers.

Or...maybe a rule to stop posting fake codes? Wouldn't that be simpler? Is posting fake codes really that crucial to people?

 

[wildeagle]

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It's pretty obvious to the folks who have followed this thread literally all week straight, refreshing the page every few minutes, that the fake codes were fake. But not everyone did that. Some people--with jobs, families, other reasons they didn't have time to refresh a website a thousand times over the course of five straight days and nights--would just stop in, I assume for a few minutes, look at whatever posts mentioned codes, and try them on the Sideshow site. Unless a person was actively following the thread conversations, or the fake codes they came across were blatantly fake, they might not even realize that any fake codes were being posted at all. They would see "latest code!" in someone's posting and that's as far as they would read. And when they tried it on Sideshow's site it wouldn't work, and they would assume that it was supposed to work. I'm not sure why so many of the people who posted fake codes can't grasp that. Not everyone has been religiously following this thread all week, so they wouldn't get any of the context of what was going on, they would just be looking at raw information. I don't think they were calling Sideshow to complain about people posting fake codes--I think they called Sideshow because they honestly didn't understand why the "codes" didn't work.

And how would they even know that a blatantly fake code was supposed to be fake? Just because a code is humorous in some way, that doesn't mean it's impossible for Sideshow to have used it, as far as a newbie knows. Unless you've been following the real codes all week you wouldn't know what Sideshow's "style" was with these codes. So as far as some newbie is concerned, maybe a humorous sounding code could be real too?

I think "No Posting Fake Codes Please, No Matter How Obvious" would be a simple solution to the problem going forward, and I don't think it would be a huge sacrifice to make. There are other ways to liven up a thread besides posting fake codes.

I see your point on this but if you are too busy and are just popping in somewhere to check for codes perhaps you should actually code the source, if I wasn't able to be on this thread for a few hours I would check twitter and facebook first as it was a hell of a lot faster than looking through 50 pages of posts to see if there was a code here.

 

[Pixelpiper]

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I think "No Posting Fake Codes Please, No Matter How Obvious" would be a simple solution to the problem going forward, and I don't think it would be a huge sacrifice to make. There are other ways to liven up a thread besides posting fake codes.

Then the solution isn't this. It's to have an invite-only thread. Then these people can miss out on the fake codes AND the real codes that other members who are devoting real time to post at the risk of insult (as in the previous message). Maybe said people can either stay away from such promotions or seek the codes themselves from Twitter or Facebook.

Wow, this is REALLY insulting.

 

[Pixelpiper]

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Or...maybe a rule to stop posting fake codes? Wouldn't that be simpler? Is posting fake codes really that crucial to people?

A rule? You can have that rule in your thread, where you hunt for codes and post them for everyone else.

This is a general banter thread, where a few times per year, people come together and share codes, jokes and more. We can't stupid-proof the internet.

 

[IXI Nick IXI]

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Are you the gentleman who sang the song to win his Cap?

Yes sir!

Just wanted to say thanks for running the text updates! It was very much appreciated and I would have missed most of them had you not been so selfless, thanks again!

THIS X 1000!

My pleasure. I will keep the group texts in my phone for 12 Days as well!

 

[slamscaper]

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So hey, is 12 days actually a thing now?