Ongoing Comps guidelines Poll

Glad

For the last week there has been a sticky thread here discussing writing a guideline for the comps board, that covers wether a comp is a regular with an end date and should be posted in the Main board, or is an ongoing promotion and should be posted on the regulars board

this follows on from a poll by MSE Andrea here where the winning option was that All regular comps with end date stay on main board but posters then post link on the regulars board (both the 3rd and the 4th options of this poll involved keeping the regs board and jointly had over 50% of the overall vote)

but there was still confusion on what was an ongoing regular comp

after the above discussion Mamzie has come up with the following guideline

Mamzie wrote: »

Ongoing Competitions - These are competitions with no apparent Promotion End date, but which hold a regular d/w/m competition, they may require repeat d/w/m entries, or can be a one time only sign up. These competitions are to be posted in the Reg Sub Forum - State “Daily/Weekly/Monthly prize/entry” in the thread title. New posts can be added to the thread for new questions/answers/links. Please update the relevant Daily/Weekly/Monthly Sticky thread in Regular Sub-Board with a link to the Thread, and competition info

if this could be agreed to, it would be used as a guideline for anyone unsure of wether a comp should be on main board or the regulars board

all regular entry promotions with an end date would still be posted on the mains board as agreed in Andrea's 1st poll

that leaves promotions with irregular end dates eg sci fi comps, big yellow on fb, and irregular entry methods eg nuts, wotv, I think most people would prefer them to be posted on mains with an end date for each promo
so if a promotion doesn't have a regular end date and regular entry method it can be posted on the mains board

basically the above should put things generally back to the way they were 6 months ago with the added bonus that regular promotions with a definite end date are now posted on the main board, and a guideline to point to for anyone not sure where a thread should be posted

there are too many compers on MSE and too many ways of comping for any guideline to suit everyone but hopefully the above could be workable

so to the poll question

could you live with these guidelines if they were implemented YES or NO

I've decided to try a yes or no poll as if the answer is yes things can settle down asap, if the answer is no the discussion will continue until you've tweaked things to suit a majority

Glad

As the disc thread re this has been open for over a week I did want to close this thread and just run a poll but the thread needs to be open for the poll

It will run for 7 days

any discussion on comp board guidelines to be posted here

Glad

I'm closing this now as so many people have come in after the poll started with more ideas that make it clear we need a poll with options

and also many people have let me know that they voted without understanding the guideline in the poll

so back to discussion and hopefully one last poll with options explained in full (including links to example comps) so everyone is completely clear

sorry if this means dragging things on but if you read the discussion linked to in the OP above it will explain why I've done this, and please people who have voted post your point of view