How Deal Ratings & Comments Work on Dealrax — Dealrax Blog
Published September 12, 2026
Every deal and coupon on Dealrax carries three signals from real shoppers: a vote count, a comment thread, and a save count. None of them are cosmetic — here's exactly what each one does and how it's tracked.
Upvoting and downvoting
Each signed-in user gets exactly one vote per deal or coupon — upvote, downvote, or none. You can change your mind or remove your vote at any time; the count on the page always reflects real, unique voters, not raw clicks. There's no mechanism for a sponsor, retailer, or the poster themselves to buy or boost a vote count — it's stored per user, per item, the same way for everyone.
Comments and replies
Anyone can leave a comment on a deal — a warning that a code stopped working, a note that a better color/size is available, or just a thumbs-up that it's a genuine price. Comments support threaded replies, so a follow-up question stays attached to the comment it's answering instead of getting buried at the bottom of the page.
Comments can be voted on too
A comment isn't just text sitting in arrival order — it carries its own upvote/downvote count, same one-vote-per-user rule as the deal itself. A comment that says "the coupon expired an hour ago" and gets upvoted by five other shoppers is a far stronger signal than the same claim sitting unverified at the bottom of a long thread.
Saving a deal for later
Saving bookmarks a deal to your account without voting on it — useful when you want to come back to something before deciding it's worth an upvote. Everything you've saved lives on your My Saves page.
Spotting a problem? Report it separately
A downvote or a comment tells other shoppers what you think — reporting a deal as expired, incorrect, or spam actually routes it to our moderation queue. See Deal Validation: How We Verify Offers for how that review process works.
Why we built it this way
A vote count only means something if it can't be gamed. That's why every signal on Dealrax — votes, comments, saves — is tied to one real account per action, with no paid placement that overrides it. A deal with a lot of downvotes and a comment thread full of "coupon doesn't work" stays visibly unpopular no matter who posted it.