New Comps Board Guidelines Discussion

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fnc63 wrote: »

if the OP is unaware or simply uninterested in reverting to picking up the comp again and posting it every month to the main board - who is going to do it :question:

I lost count of the number of times I asked exactly that question and the closest to an answer i got was that this gives new posters an opportunity to post some comps so they can give back. Time will tell but I will be suprised if we don't miss out on a lot of comps.........but it's what a lot of peeps were asking for so we'll have to try to make it work I guess

toniq

Please don't delete anything in the actual monthlies thread, can it just be left in G/O so if comps are missed or not posted there is a way to see what we r missing.

Glad

re the monthly sticky - later tonight I'll copy the sticky list of monthlies into a new thread with an explanation in the OP

I'll lock the old one, send it to GO and add a post at the top explaining, so anyone going to it from a saved link will see it

then I'll leave the copied list in regs while I send all the monthlies that will now be on mains to GO and I'll highlight in red which ones they are on the sticky, quite a few people have pm'd and said they will help post them on mains :T
people can post on this thread to say which comps they have posted from the link which should be quicker than searching for each comp to see if it has been posted

Glad

posted here as a sticky

any ideas on a better title to catch people's attention?

toniq

NEW GUIDELINES: Major Changes to Comp Posting- Read Before Posting

That way the onus is on the poster to read the thread before posting xx

emiai

Thank you for working out this system. I loved mamzies clear rules on how to display thread titles too. Hopefully this trial period will be a successful change and cause less stress.

More comps, more luck, less stress. X

Mamzie

thanks Glad,

I haven't been on MSe as had a challenging few days thanks to a garage letting me down with an adapted car.

I've love it if you could add just a few of the other guidelines to your post as well - esp the expiry date and title tags bits - they would help new compers and help us all to post comps in the same way.

I feel that the definitive guidelines, which I hope yours will turn out to be, should be in a thread of their own. VGs guide is fab, but its like the instruction booklet to accompany a quickstart rules thread, iyswim

Winjackie

Sorry to ask a question which may have already been covered but if I comp by end date on main board (entering today the comps that end tomorrow), how likely am I to miss out on comps? I very rarely get time to visit the other threads (weeklies etc).
TIA x

One-Eye

Winjackie wrote: »

Sorry to ask a question which may have already been covered but if I comp by end date on main board (entering today the comps that end tomorrow), how likely am I to miss out on comps? I very rarely get time to visit the other threads (weeklies etc).
TIA x

If you ONLY comp in this way and don't use the regulars board then the changes will mean:-

1) You will see many, many more monthly comps that you currently miss because they are on regulars - there will be hundreds of extra comps ending on the last day of a month - probably far too many to do them all the previous day.

2) You will get the chance to enter some monthly comps that currently you only get to enter in their final month, as these will have individual posts for each month they run instead of a combined thread with an ending date at the end of the final month.

3) You will miss some weekly comps that you currently can enter as these should be moved from individual posts on the main board to regulars, or to a combined post on main where you can only enter the final week's comp.

Glad

Mamzie wrote: »

thanks Glad,

I haven't been on MSe as had a challenging few days thanks to a garage letting me down with an adapted car.

I've love it if you could add just a few of the other guidelines to your post as well - esp the expiry date and title tags bits - they would help new compers and help us all to post comps in the same way.

I feel that the definitive guidelines, which I hope yours will turn out to be, should be in a thread of their own. VGs guide is fab, but its like the instruction booklet to accompany a quickstart rules thread, iyswim

added a few

after I've sorted the monthlies moving we can discuss what else you want added here