*NEW* Bragging Rules & Guidelines

[FallenPixels]

Welcome to the bragging section

Here you can post pictures of your bargains and let us know what you got, how much you spent and which coupons you used. It's a lot of fun knowing how well others did. We love to see non shopping brags too! Brag about whatever you did, new job, or anything else!

We want to make brags a comfortable and positive experience for all. While we are not the coupon police, blatant misuse of coupons or shelf clearing does upset people. Please consider whether your brag will be seen as legitimate before posting. If you bought 100 of something, you can still talk about the deal in general terms without showing a photo of 100 bottles - you still get to brag and no one feels the need to complain...

Reading brags is also a learning experience for newer members and we ask that anything you post is something you feel comfortable sharing with others and others copying (obviously clearance deals are not available to others but we still want to see them - but follow the general theme of "responsible couponing/saving"). Remember that stores and manufacturers read sites like SC and our actions can impact future coupons and deals.

We have shopping discussion and rants forums if you feel the need to post an unbrag. To be clear an unbrag is when a situation goes wrong - not when someone comments on your post.

Negative comments are not allowed in the brag forum. DO NOT start your thread with comments like "Do not post negative comments" etc as it just makes people want to do so and makes people question the legitimacy of your brag, even if the deal is legitimate. Posting which coupons you used and which stores you price-matched will stop a lot of the questions. While recommended, it is not required but help others out by sharing!

If you feel a brag contains misuse of coupons, do not reply - use the report button and mods will look into it and delete/expire the thread if necessary. Please be patient as mods will have to discuss the thread as we are not always familiar with every deal/coupon and do not want to needlessly remove threads that are legitimate. See below if you do not know how to report a thread.

Users CAN ask which coupon was used or how you got a deal etc *as long as it is done respectfully* - SC is here to help people learn, often these comments have been viewed as negative but some people are just curious. Not everyone knows every single coupon out there. Obviously negative comments will be deleted and hopefully with only more legitimate brags, there will be no need for these types of replies. Try not to be too sensitive to these comments, many people truly do just want to know which coupon is used etc.

If you feel a reply on a brag is negative - report it! Do not reply to them. It makes more mess for us to clean up as we have to go through finding the replies to remove them too.

People love to know that you read their brag, even if you don't comment, take the time to like or thumbs up the post. People who do not see recognition for their posts (across the whole forum) rarely post again. By taking a second to click like you may get a great deal from a future post they make.

Please do not post any brags about the survey money you get, rewards that you get from search & win websites or for that matter any brag that can get you more referrals. Other members feel it is like advertising your referral link that is already in your signature. Posts like these will be merged with the original survey or search & win posts that are in this forum: http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/surveys...opping-canada/
We all do these surveys & searches and earned many rewards & free money. Imagine a brag section full of these kind of brags lol, but we have a forum dedicated just for that already Please post in those appropriate threads about your haul or start a new thread if it is not there already.

[Shwa Girl]

Looks good

[amira84]

Very good job indeed!

[walkonby]

seems clear to me. Thanks FP

[Natalka]

Wonderful guidelines!

[coley3]

That looks great. thanks for all that you do

[FallenPixels]

REMINDER
and please be patient when reporting, we sleep/work/eat etc occasionally lol

[hollyquaiscer]

WHAT.....you mean you want to sleep too????

Well said hun, have a great day

[FallenPixels]

Occasionally LOL

[alizawill]

Thanks

[Patty Smyth]

I don't think people are quite getting the message about posting brags misusing coupons. If you are going to use the wrong coupon on the wrong product don't post a brag about it.

[Kamel Hamel]

thank you




I hope people that includes

[FallenPixels]

Reminder bump (for both people posting misuse and those who feel the need to comment rather than report)

[Shwa Girl]

Welcome to the bragging section

we ask that anything you post is something you feel comfortable sharing with others and others copying (obviously clearance deals are not available to others but we still want to see them - but follow the general theme of "responsible couponing/saving"). Remember that stores and manufacturers read sites like SC and our actions can impact future coupons and deals.

[FallenPixels]

BUMP ~ reminder