Skip button?

emweaver wrote: »

Surely you can tell from the thread title if you want to win the prize or not.

Yes of course (most of the time that is unless it's something I don't know what it is!) but when you get in the thread and you realise it's not such a great comp then you don't want to enter, then it gets bumped and you see ipad in the title so you look at it again :mad:

luijo wrote: »

I think it's a brilliant idea, as I have often wished that there was such a thing. I like some others have now resorted to ticking even when I haven't entered, and thanking but it then confuses me later. I def support your idea itsmeexxx, and thanks for proposing it.

Yep, I'd find it totally irritating using the entered button if I hadn't entered - as if a thread I've already entered gets bumped if I have time I may go back in to check either for a new weekly/daily question or link or whether the first question has been marked incorrect or something so to have even more entered than I have already entered would be so irritating and then confusing as you wouldn't necessarily know if you had entered it or not!

emweaver wrote: »

Surely you can tell from the thread title if you want to win the prize or not.

Not really... Often I have to go into a thread or the competition itself to realise travel's not included or the dates wouldn't be possible for me. Or I realise it's a blog entry or twitter entry which I don't usually do. Or the title is quite non-descript e.g. "win a bag" in which case I always go and look at it before I decide whether to enter as I'm not interested in entering competitions for stuff I wouldn't use. Or I just plain don't know what the prize is from the title.

Skip button would be really helpful!

Thanks for all your feedback,

We're going to look into this and see if it's something we can implement for you soon. In the meantime, it's worth remembering that new threads appear in bold at board level if you've not read them before. The bold is removed once you've viewed it.

It's not quite as elegant a solution as the great minds on here have proposed, but it might help a bit in the interim whilst we look at "skip".

Hi again,

Conceptually, is this the sort of thing you're after:



Would you then prefer a "X" in the board list as suggested (like the tick for enter), or something that matched this button more, i.e. the "skipped" symbol ">|"?

We'd naturally provide an "unskip" alternate in case you change your mind.

Happy to go with any design but if you want a preference I quite like the idea of an orange skip symbol.