A Tweak to Points for Popular Comments
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Hi everyone! 
I just wanted to let everyone know that there has been a small change to points for popular comments.
The idea for popular comments has always been to try and award genuinely helpful comments that other members have appreciated.
We’ve seen an increasing number of members who have made friends on LD (which we think is great!) give each other a helping hand by liking each other’s comments. To ensure we can continue to reward members with points (and explore introducing new ways to earn points too) we have to try and strike a balance where we’re still awarding genuinely popular/helpful comments (giving more detail about a deal, pointing out a cheaper price elsewhere, etc) rather than it perhaps being limited to the polite and kind (but maybe not so detailed and helpful) comments of friendship groups on LD.
The number of likes required for a ‘popular comment’ has now increased and may change again in the future as we look to get the balance right. Also, only "Super Great" comments are now eligible for popular bonus points. Our goal is to find a sustainable approach whilst promoting genuine and helpful comments from individuals.
We have also updated the system to deter members with multiple accounts (which isn’t allowed on Latest Deals) from getting bonus points by liking their own comments.
We hope that this minor tweak will have the intended purpose. The threshold for popular comments has been the same since it was first introduced. There are now 2 million more members signed up for Latest Deals and so the ease to reach the new popular comment threshold should hopefully still be much easier than it originally was!
As an aside - I’d like to share that we do have an additional process where we manually award big bonus points when we spot comments from members who have gone the extra mile to help out 
Thanks as ever for being part of LD and please let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
Many thanks,
Kelsey
PS. The points table has been updated to reflect this latest change and you can view it >> HERE
Am I right in thinking this has nothing to do with chat only deals? Quite a while back points were stopped for popular comments on chat. Since then there have been some really helpful comments but no idea if they get any points. I don't have anything to do with deals so doesn't affect me but I am curious. Sorry to be obtuse
Lynibis Hi no we no longer give points for popular comments in chat as it was open to abuse so we changed it some time ago to be fair to all users. You can see what you can get points for and how many which has now been updated to reflect this latest change here >>
But here is the table that shows what points are available for commenting. Thank you
Can see why you’ve done this and it won’t really affect how i use the app in anyway.
Kelsey, thank you for keeping us all informed, but I am still confused. I wii just have to figure it out
Jackscot what are you confused about? Basically, it used to be 3 likes on a comment on a post other than a chat post to get a bonus of 20 points as it must be a great comment to get 3 likes but there was a bit of abuse going to to get people to give you three likes so now the amount of likes to get the 20 point bonus has changed from 3 to 5. You will not get any bonus points for likes on a chat post though - I hope this helps if not please let me know and I will try to help and explain more. I have included a picture below explaining too
Thank you
Thanks for the update. I didn’t think you could get points for liking chat posts anyway
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