You have very good points in your comment and this is why I kept it. However to dampen the bias a little bit I thought it would be better to disclose the affiliation. Does that sound fair?

Your site is extremely helpful and insightful for many users. Thanks again.

I beg to differ on this one.

I’ve tried both Dealplus and Modoshi. Dealsplus has an amazing community that supports one another and is so easy to use. They even have a Youtube.com video demonstrating how to submit deals, whereas Modoshi is far too bloated, complicated, and submitting deals is a long and excruciating process.

In respect to submitting deals I also feel like it is a waste of time and effort as not all your deals will go through because of affiliate issues.

A few of my friends have been rewarded by entering in the free one hour a day giveaway for either an iPod, Zune, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and more! Many users have also broadcasted themselves on Youtube.com to validate their winnings. There is also the a free side mirror and frame set just for being a user.

I could only last 30 minutes on Modoshi before converting back to Dealsplus where my loyalty will remain. Joining just for the wonderful community in Dealsplus alone is a reward in itself. The Dealplus owners ask for feedback and appreciate any advice in its improvement.

As a last note, in comparing the hot deals in both site’s main page, Dealplus has the better deals on the more popular items people want and need.

Never pay retail again! DealsPl.us

Modoshi uses the community mostly to get the submissions coming. Their deal rank is not what you will find at digg or dealsplus. It has social part in it but it is also based on the stats they gather for similar products (see my post). To me this is exactly the moderation that you refer to. Or should I say, social + brains.

I’ll give two examples. For the first case, I glanced at modoshi and saw one of the recent winners had won from submitting a pre-order link for the new WoW Expansion. This is a very popular new product, but not a very good deal in terms of savings. I think it was listed at the retail price if I remember right.

Another example is when people use Digg to promote websites. I’ve seen several good sites promoted on Digg, with little to no fanfare, and then some bigtime player who already has a well-known name comes along and pushes their site and gets a huge response.

As much as I like social communities and realize their value to the deal community, I think some form of moderation needs to take form over these communities. While I love Digg and use it regularly for news and other miscellaneous stuff, I would never use it as my source for daily news on the world because of the natural bias in this community.

My final comment is, I dunno where I’ll go with BargainJack. It will certainly be geared towards community and the free exchange of ideas. No matter which direction I go, I will at least resist some of the temptation to compromise quality for an unmoderated, self-sustaining community–at least until someone comes up with a good way of preserving quality.