Competitions Discussion Thread Part 12

fire**fly

bargainhuntergal wrote: »

Obviously this would only work if people do send the link to Gilla or add a post onto to the end of the Daily thread (the latter probably being the best option incase Gilla doesn't get on everyday, it means less pressure on Gilla to find the time to update the thread)

i don't visit the reg boards much but have noticed on main board
when a weekly/daily/ comp is posted some peeps just reply 'this is a daily/weekly'

but don't send the link/comp to gilla to add to her listings

as you say would be good if they did

Glad

bargainhuntergal wrote: »

Just quickly on a side note, one thing I noticed the other day under the 'Game Over' forum, it says "Please report all closed contests in the contest closed thread on the main board." *confused* Did it used to be the case when the forum was much smaller to have a thread which people posted in?

just noticed this comment, I think that was the case, I'll have to get one of the forum team to edit this

also noticed the sticky at the top of GO seems to be about the regulars board? but can someone check, it is late at night

Glad

Mamzie wrote: »

Just a quickie from me....

If you go into advanced search, then you can select to search in just the titles not through the whole post. This can help bring up less comps that are outside what you are looking for.

Finally a huge thanks to Glad for looking into stickies and reg.

that's how I search for end dates and you can select to just search one board or sub board too

bargainhuntergal

twotimes wrote: »

I won't get into the whole "regular comps" debate right now, but some of the points raised have got me thinking;

For the competitions that are "Enter once (and only once) and you are included in the current draw and all following draws", if these were posted in the normal section with the end date as the date of the first draw, what problems would this throw up?

Possibly newer forum members would miss the competition if it was posted before they joined. Possibly if you went away for a bit you might miss the whole competition. This way would however mean that both people entering by newly posted and people entering by end date would be included in all of the draws.

I wish this way would work, but unfortunately, it's just too huge a number of people that would miss it for it to work, like you say, not everyone will be able to get on everyday, say it was posted on 19/11 and the first draw was 19/11, so the end date was 19/11 (or 20/11 (00.01) as seems to be the favoured format for comps posted ending the same day) and someone wasn't able to get on that day or for a few days, they would miss not only that day but every day after that which could be hundreds of days depending on the comp, there would probably be lots of requests to BG's to change the date and take it back to the main board anyway.

I also think if people realised this was happening (they could be alerted to it from posts of people winning in 'I won') imagine if everyone was let know they'd won after the competition had ended there would be complete uproar from the people that missed the very brief-lived post.

I don't think it would work for the ones like the Magic and Kiss comps either as they're constantly updated when new names are put up/read out.

bargainhuntergal

Glad wrote: »

just noticed this comment, I think that was the case, I'll have to get one of the forum team to edit this

also noticed the sticky at the top of GO seems to be about the regulars board? but can someone check, it is late at night

Thanks, I wasn't sure who was able edit it.

Can you imagine if that was still the way it worked now, there would need to be a new thread posted every single day from the amount of comps on here! :rotfl: It's hard to imagine that ever being possible with the size it is now!

I think the GO sticky can be unstickied (is that a word?) and left to drop back into place in the GO forum as there seems to be a newer version of the same post in Regulars now.

Glad

just found a comp on last page of regs, locked in 2005 but still running :rotfl:

I've posted and unlocked it which will bump it up to the front page so hope there aren't many!

bargainhuntergal

Glad wrote: »

just found a comp on last page of regs, locked in 2005 but still running :rotfl:

:eek: 5 years ago!!! EEK!

Has it still got the same link and prize and everything??

Glad

bargainhuntergal wrote: »

:eek: 5 years ago!!! EEK!

Has it still got the same link and prize and everything??

same link but prize wasn't mentioned in OP so don't know if ot's the same one

come across a couple more too, however there are only 36 pages in the Reg board so I've decided to work through them, move dead ones to GO, and unlock live ones, but not bump them

feel free to let me know if this isn't a good idea

ETA this is going to take a while so I'm moving dead comps to GO (leaving locked)
if I'm not sure I'm leaving them in Reg board (still locked)
if the comp is definitely still running I'm unlocking them, but that's just so I know where I'm up to until I can discuss with the other BGs why they get locked and when

Glad

something else to think on

maybe the weekly TAB, Chat etc threads could be in the Reg board (just a thought really) they are popular threads and still would be in the reg board, maybe it would make the reg board a place more people frequented if it had some of the popular threads there

I'm just throwing out thoughts though so let me know what you think

ginjim

Glad wrote: »

something else to think on

maybe the weekly TAB, Chat etc threads could be in the Reg board (just a thought really) they are popular threads and still would be in the reg board, maybe it would make the reg board a place more people frequented if it had some of the popular threads there

I'm just throwing out thoughts though so let me know what you think

yes i do
imo all ongoing comps should be in there
like you said at least it will liven the place up

also if we had starting comps there too
for example
E: 25/12 win various tech from game including tv, ps3,xbox starts 01/11
E: 02/12 ? Win BA flights all week(written effort)starts 22/11
E:25/12 KISSMAS (Starts 22/11)


these all have fantastic prizes
and if they were in one place then people will have a better chance of winning it would probably tidy up the main board by the bumping too