Facebook Competitions

something4nothing

Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I would like to ask why Facebook competitions aren't posted on there own so they don't get mixed up with others.I don't use Facebook and have no intention of doing so even though many promoters are now using it.

Barnabysue

This has been suggested before, but if Facebook had its own Board then it would follow that Twitter and Pinterest would also need to be separated, so it wouldn't really work. Many posters indicate in the title whether a comp requires Facebook, if everyone did it there wouldn't be a problem.

Good Luck with your comping.

something4nothing

Don't understand why separating Fakebook and Twitter wouldn't work,surely it would make it easier.Thanks for replying BarnabySue.

Barnabysue

I think we need to remember that MSE is a whole lot more than just the Competition Boards and the team running it is not huge. There are also only 3 Board Guides who do the job voluntarily so the more places that comps are put, the longer it takes them to see that everything is running smoothly. Just my view

zombieslayer25

As Sue mentioned, there will be far too many boards if they were to start having sub-sections of type of comp, also some might go in more than one and then that could lead to dupes. You can see which comps are FB so very easy to not select them if its not something you want to enter just in the same way that I dont want to enter comps for tickets, I just dont select them to start off with.

something4nothing

Cheers for the reply Zombie , how do I know if its a Fakebook competition so I know not to select it as I have been wasting a lot of time following links just to find its another Fakebook entry.

mjm3346

They usually have FB or facebook in the post heading

Blulu

If you don't use FB I can see how it would make sense to have these comps separated, but as someone who does do FB comps, I would hate to have to wade through the ordinary comps, then start again with the FB ones, then start again with Twitter ones, and then with whatever other categories people choose to separate.

I don't do family/kids comps, so for me it would be better to have these posted separately. See what I mean? It's actually best and easiest just to have one place for all comps. There will never be one system that suits everyone.

I have asked before if it was possible to increase the search facility to skip key words (like Facebook, kids, e.g.) That way people could exclude whichever comps they wanted from a search. All it would take would be for posters to get used to posting standard search symbols

[FB]
[TW]
[Kids]
[Fam]
[London]
[Gerbils]

Ok, perhaps not so much call for gerbil comps, but you never know

something4nothing

A filter sounds like the way forward.
thanks all for your help