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  • fire**fly
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    lilias wrote: »
    Well, in the stickie Divadee says

    "A lot of threads being posted are duplicates of other threads. Please can people use the search facility. A userguide to the search facility is above in this thread.

    As the search facility can be hit and miss if you do spot a duplicate please can you pm the link of the original and duplicate(s) threads and the board guides can merge them together.

    This is not just to keep the boards tidy, but some comps if you enter more than once you disqualify yourself.

    Please can you only pm them to one board guide this saves time for board guides when going through the merge requests.


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    in the comping guide it says

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    post_old.gif 04-07-2008, 8:56 PM

    If you click a BG name, it will take you to their profile page,
    over on the right is the 'Contact Info' & you should see a link to 'Send a private message to xxxx'

    If you click that, a Private Message (PM) box will display & then all you need to do is put a title (eg Merge Request Please), then tell the BG what the Original Thread URL & the Dupe Thread URL is. (Highlight the URL of a thread in the bar at the top of the browser screen & right click > copy. Then click your mouse back into the PM box & right click > paste). You can ‘Preview Message’ to see how it will look, if you want, before you click to ‘Submit message’.

    Please also post on the duplicate comp thread that it is a dupe, include a link to the original thread & if you mention that you have sent a merge request to whichever BG you sent it to, then that will save others doing exactly the same thing & bombarding the poor BGs with multiple requests for the same thing.

    ..

    it's very confusing at the moment :o
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  • OnceUponADream
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    weeowens wrote: »
    Hi,Tea Pea Dee

    I was much of the same opinion re not sending merge pms to the BG team as I found it all a bit confusing with the mixed messages from various people.Plus I'll admit that I was fearful of making a hash of sending to multiple BG's as asked.
    I've now thought about it & will just bend with the MSE admin wind for a bit as I just feel that to do cease any sending of merge messages may not be fair on the less experienced members on here.
    I mean no offence to anyone but maybe together we can just pull together for a few days until we get this sorted either way.

    I've only sent two since this was posted and I sent to all three BG's explaining in the PM that I had sent to all of them.

    The final decision will have to come from the BG's as they are the ones who deal with the 'workload'.....it makes no difference to me typing an extra two names into the box.
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  • Tea_Pea_Dee
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    I've only sent two since this was posted and I sent to all three BG's explaining in the PM that I had sent to all of them.

    The final decision will have to come from the BG's as they are the ones who deal with the 'workload'.....it makes no difference to me typing an extra two names into the box.

    UOAD it makes no difference to me how many names I type on a PM, I am a touch typist, so could type 100 names in the time it takes a one-fingered typist to type 1 name ;) My point is that it is not fair on the BGs, not the posters. My tools are lying in the corner collecting dust atm until MS Andrea reports back :)


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  • Dalkirst
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    I am already opening PM's that have already been merged:rotfl:
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  • OnceUponADream
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    UOAD it makes no difference to me how many names I type on a PM, I am a touch typist, so could type 100 names in the time it takes a one-fingered typist to type 1 name ;) My point is that it is not fair on the BGs, not the posters. My tools are lying in the corner collecting dust atm until MS Andrea reports back :)

    I did question the amount of work it would create y'day for the BG's, however my point is that I have continued to request merges instead of ignoring them and have done so as Andrea has suggested.

    I do think the 'old' system is best. however not being a touch typist I'm unsure how i'll cope if we need to type three names in one go;)
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  • Daphne01
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    Dalkirst wrote: »
    I am already opening PM's that have already been merged:rotfl:

    That's the reason I'm sticking to the one merge one BG rule at the mo. It's ridiculous :/
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  • Glad
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    Dalkirst wrote: »
    I am already opening PM's that have already been merged:rotfl:

    sorry :o

    I had a few already done too, being the weekend we've probably been online a few times, and also only a few posters are doing the 'send to all BGs'

    imagine a weekday evening, first one on will have double the amount to do, and last on will have dozens of pm's to check, all of which will already have been merged :(
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  • Well, there's no logic in sending a PM to all three BGs ... I'll stick to the usual way ...

    Hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction.
  • CraSiEla
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    ER... I always thought we are here to save money!!!

    It makes sense to send ONE pm to ONE BG only for ONE merge. :money:

    This would save the resources of MSE.

    I'm sure the guys in MSE towers don't want us to send a merge to three different people - using all these resources for one merge, it just doesn't make money sense.

    Not sure what I'll do yet, if I see something which needs merging - (think I'll go back to being 24-36 hours behind in comping.)

    Glad has said it all
    Glad wrote: »
    imagine a weekday evening, first one on will have double the amount to do, and last on will have dozens of pm's to check, all of which will already have been merged :(

    Good luck getting it sorted to your satisfaction BG's :)
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  • Former_MSE_Andrea
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    edited 15 October 2012 at 8:35AM
    Hi everyone

    Sorry, this wasn't meant to cause confusion.

    We had reports of people grumbling that merge requests weren't being done and when we looked there was indeed criticism of one BG in particular for not having merged some threads (now removed as it's obviously not appropriate).

    We definitely don't want to make BGs' lives harder and we weren't aware people didn't do this as standard.

    The idea of a special Merges sticky is a great one. Whatever helps keep the board running smoothly and makes BGs' lives easier is fine. I'll leave that up to the board guides to sort if they agree.

    Have a good day :)
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