Originally Posted by
broadwayblue
So who exactly should be in the know regarding these deals?
People who have the patience to read a 10-page thread; people who have the intelligence to figure out the deal without a step-by-step powerpoint style presentation with red circles showing where to click.
Originally Posted by
sbm12
And the stuff being discussed here isn't even a secret so much as something that others might not have figured out yet. Pretending that there is only one person who can discover things and that without FT blogs wouldn't exist or have content is laughable.
There is a huge difference between the brainstorming that occurs on FT: someone posts an idea or promo, and people start discussing ways to use it, there is a collaboration to discover the best uses of the promo and the limitations and gotchas, the community members read and contribute and think about the deal... and a blogger reading the thread, cherry picking some ideas, preparing a slideshow of instructions to spoonfeed an audience.
And while you may say that my concept of FT is idealized, at least in the FT format, someone has to be willing to scroll through a few pages of dross to 'figure out' the deal. When it comes to preserving deals, there is a huge advantage in having a slight barrier to entry as opposed to no barrier to entry.