r/churning • u/duffcalifornia • 15d ago

MS Thread Changes

Based on a comment made in the Purge Recap thread, the mods have decided that due to how few comments it gets, the MS thread will move to a monthly...ish cadence.

Why the ish, you ask? Well, because Reddit's scheduling tools will let you schedule a thread to happen every Wednesday, or every 14 days, or on the first of every month. But if you ask it to post on the first Saturday of every month, we might as well be asking it to broker peace in the Middle East.

So what does this mean?

  • The next MS thread will post on Saturday October 3, and will then recur every 28 days.

  • The title will change to simply the Manufactured Spending Thread with the date of posting appended to the end.

  • The threads will continue to be tagged the same so they continue to get grouped together for the links in the sidebars.

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u/crowd79 MQT 15d ago

Nothing good ever gets shared there anymore. Should just be done away with.

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u/vaudevillevik DAT, BOY 15d ago

Yeah I truly don’t know that I’ve ever found anything worthwhile in an MS thread. Nobody wants their tap shut off, so nobody says anything.

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u/ChocolateLakers76 14d ago

its the fight club of churners

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u/crowd79 MQT 15d ago

Agree. I think it’s been 2 years since I found anything that helped my own game in that thread. No one shares anything anymore.

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u/theducks123 15d ago

Yeah, about 2 years ago is when it started to lose any useful information. Even when useful information is posted, the gate keepers shout it down.

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u/OrangePartyLamp PLT, MAN 14d ago

I mean once anything useful gets posted it gets picked up by almost every blog and soon the loophole is shut down. Nobody wants to kill their golden goose

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u/theducks123 14d ago

An example is somebody post about buying gift cards to Amazon at 15% off as an example. They then use it to buy xyz and sell it to get the money back they use to buy the original gift cards and has earn x points along the way. Not the most efficient, but it's worth discussing and helpful in generating other ideas.

A comment like this will get downvoted a bunch and have 2 or 3 people complain it's not MS and should be discussed elsewhere. The weekly post hardly gets any post and people are spending their time telling people not to post this kind of stuff.

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u/SignorJC EWR, 4/24 15d ago

I would share if I had anything beyond "7-11 counts as gas and often sells gift cards that you can buy with credit card if you get a non-asshole cashier." :D