Post of the Month - March

Former_MSE_Andrea

After a lot of deliberating this month's winner is Tiff for the Grocery Challenge thread.

Congratulations Tiff, could you pm me?

squeaky

So PLEASE do tell -- *where* is this thread? Could you include a _link_ to the posts you choose as winners? It can take forever for non-adepts to find the article in question otherwise.

Rgds, Richard

tiff

Hi Richard, look at the link for the MArch grocery challenge in my signature.

queensway_boy

CONGRATULATIONS tiff:beer:

squeaky

That link takes me to the tips page which has no such thing as March Grocery on it. It's the main page fopr tips. So I tried CHAT Forums and couldn't see anything there. So I did a search on grocery challenge and *still* could find nothing.
When I say a link to the post comcerned I mean *a link to the post concerned* because, as I said, for non adept forum navigators finding an individual post is a nightmare.

tiff

Here is the link rwsteele http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=28927

That takes you to the March grocery challenge. These monthly challenges actually started in February.

squeaky

Thanks tiff. It really isn't easy for us newbies to find things that you old hands are so expert at. Sometimes you don't seem to realise that not eveyone is as well up on things as you are. Er, that's a _generic_ you. I've seen post such as "..I really liked that post by martin..." yeah, right, like I'm going to find that!

I did recently suggest to the webmaster that the notification of the winning post in the newsletter should contain its location and not simply point to the post that nominates it - especially when the nominating post doesn't contain the link.

It takes me about two minutes flat to get completely lost in here and I've only ever found what I was looking for by accident. And I'm not thick, honest ;-)

tiff

I appreciate when you are new to the forums that its difficult to find your way round. You only have to ask though (as you did) and people will be willing to point you in the right direction

Edinburghlass_2

rwsteele wrote:

Thanks tiff. It really isn't easy for us newbies to find things that you old hands are so expert at. Sometimes you don't seem to realise that not eveyone is as well up on things as you are. Er, that's a _generic_ you. I've seen post such as "..I really liked that post by martin..." yeah, right, like I'm going to find that!

I did recently suggest to the webmaster that the notification of the winning post in the newsletter should contain its location and not simply point to the post that nominates it - especially when the nominating post doesn't contain the link.

It takes me about two minutes flat to get completely lost in here and I've only ever found what I was looking for by accident. And I'm not thick, honest ;-)

Have a browse through Sra's thread here on The Site A-Z which gives lots of useful tips on using the forums but I have to agree with you that the search function can be very difficult to use

One of the easiest ways to find posts by a particular poster is to click on the user's name and a drop down menu will appear giving you the option to read other posts made by that user.

HTH

squeaky

tiff wrote:

I appreciate when you are new to the forums that its difficult to find your way round. You only have to ask though (as you did) and people will be willing to point you in the right direction

True - but for a thread or a post specifically mentioned in the newsletter, such as the winning post for the month, I shouldn't _have_ to ask "where the ^&* is it?" I should be able to find it relatively easily.

Anyway, I've seen it, thank you, and it's a fascinating thread, but the only way I can navigate back to it to continue reading is to come through these posts. I can't pick out, in the various headers there, quite where I _am_ on the site and so have no idea how to get back there by a more direct route.

I shall be wandering off to the A-Z shortly - again navigating via this thread, and hope that things may become a little clearer... I may be gone some time...


Richard