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Marg2k8 wrote: »

If you sort the threads by thread title, ascending, there are also a lot that say things like "dupe" at the beginning.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&f=72&page=1&pp=20&sort=title&order=asc&daysprune=-1

thanks to all Board Guides for all that you do to keep the boards in order. it must be a thankless task.

there always are this is sometimes because the end date is removed and replaced with "dupe" or "game over please" by the OP of the post instead of a pm being sent to a BG or a post bumping the thread and asking us all to click expired (needs 5 of us to click i think so its auto moved to GO), or the BG pmed didn't manage to take action following the pm for some reason, which sometimes happens with merge requests too.

I know I have pmed Glad a few times saying there are heaps that have built up and she has gone and sorted by end date to find them and move them, but to be honest I personally think the BGs have enough to do without having to also search the first and last few pages for comps which the title has been changed on as well as for the specific end date due to be moved to GO, so I only point them out when there are pages of them or more than a small handful of comps with a specific end date that have been missed in the moving. GLad is an :A angel and always moves them following a PM, I am sure other BGs would too

Glad

Marg2k8 wrote: »

Thanks Glad. I can only speak for one of the posts that I accidentally duped myself, but with a few minutes of posting it, someone else pointed out that I had done a dupe, so I immediately sent a link to a BG, with a link to my post and the original post, asking them to merge it. It has still not been done about two weeks later. Is there any protocol here that if it is not done within say three days, you should PM a second BG, or send a reminder to the first or anything?

yes you could do that and post on the dupe to say so