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Competitions Discussion Thread Part 7

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  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite
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    Ghirl wrote: »
    Just to clarify, is the new format "E: 01/09" for example, and not "E: 1/9"?

    yes thats right it needs the 0 in there on date and month for the search to pick it up correctly.
  • divadee wrote: »
    can i ask people what they think of the new sort by facility that the new expiry date has enabled?

    i need some honest feedback of how you think its working.

    really really really good happy-028.gif
    hopefully people will keep to it and wont mind if people ask them to change it if they don't do it in the "correct" way
  • I like it Divadee :)

    I can really easilly search for them now
  • jacquie3167
    jacquie3167 Posts: 12,032 Forumite
    divadee wrote: »
    can i ask people what they think of the new sort by facility that the new expiry date has enabled?

    i need some honest feedback of how you think its working.

    I've just had a quick look and I think it's great, but I suspect it wont be long before people start to ignore the format once again. :mad:
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  • Divadee you are a god, anyone who says they can't manage to find the comps need to reread instructions. I'm a bit slow on the uptake and have managed it swiftly thanks to you organising. Hope we can keep it so pretty!!!!!
  • divadee wrote: »
    can i ask people what they think of the new sort by facility that the new expiry date has enabled?

    i need some honest feedback of how you think its working.

    I think it's working really really well as everything is now grouped together and you can just skip loads of pages and know you haven't missed anything!

    I wonder if maybe we could have a smiley for asking people to change the end date if they post it in the wrong format? As they seem to go down better than words, which can be taken in the wrong way sometimes! I think it was Cheeky Chicken that made the really good smilies before! :T

    I'd offer to make one myself but I wouldn't know where to start! :rotfl:

    Edit: I wonder if there was a smiley if it could be linked to the sticky? I'm not sure if it's possible or anything, but like you could click on the smiley and it would open the sticky about end dates?
  • zray
    zray Posts: 1,110 Forumite
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    Thank you to everyone who has explained how to sort the threads out-I got confused as well and now it makes sense to me! I just want to add that when I started posting my OH worried I might be upset by comments back to me and I kept telling him how great this forum is and how much I wanted to feel I belong to it. I cant find the right words but I hope we can go back to feeling we are all part of something fun and positive. HOPE tHATS NOT TOO CONTROVERSIAL :)
  • I'm loving the new sort facility Divadee. Personally I was using the comps ending posts daily because I'm soooooo far behind in the forum and have been desperately trying to catch up for the past 8 weeks.

    But, I've used the display settings to find the comps I need and it works perfectly. I think it'll save a lot of time for those who very kindly posted the daily comps ending threads and I'm sure that between us we can keep the correct format of posting comps.

    If people gently explain to posters when they've used the incorrect format it'll work just fine. There will always be some comps posted with the wrong format but if peeps point it out politely there shouldn't be a problem.

    I do have a little suggestion, maybe we could have something 'official' that we can copy and past into posts telling people how to change their title and why it needs to be done, it may save any upsets or misunderstandings.

    Thanks as always for your hard work. I'm off back to page 75 to continue trying to catch up lol.

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  • divadee wrote: »
    can i ask people what they think of the new sort by facility that the new expiry date has enabled?

    i need some honest feedback of how you think its working.

    Its fab Divadee, works really well :T
    Thanks to everyone that posts :T:money:
  • Al_Mac wrote: »
    It works. Can take time to find the date you are interested in. But will get easier with practice, as does everything:D

    If, harping on again, it was in "E: yymmdd" format, when sorted ascending, the next date, would be first.

    I know this would be to hard for a lot of people to understand and stick to. The evidence is out there:rolleyes:

    I can understand what you're getting at with the end dates but can you imagine poor divadee and the other BG's having to go back through and change them all again!! lol! :p

    I think it works well as it is because although you have the ones for different months in there at the moment theres not too many so it's only like a page or two.
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