Quick question about guessed end dates

Jokey

At the risk of an ear bashing - I just wonder if it's possible to give a more conservative approach to guessed end dates.

I find that many of the guessed dates are already expired when I go to enter - this is normally when given a month (for example finding and posting a competition on 10/12 and guessing end date as 10/01)..

I wonder if it's possible for people to guess at maybe 2 weeks, 3 maximum, to give the compers who sort by date, a chance to enter.

I don't think a shorter end date would actually affect any, or many, people but greatly benefit those who enter by date, like myself

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, kind of want to get it out there

weeowens

I'd agree Jokey & it is the approach that I currently use with the gussedenddate comps.

Talk Sport is known for short runs so it is especially needed when posting from there.

galaxynicole

On twitter ones that I post if it's retweets, I just put a few days on but with following ones, I generally do a month as it sometimes takes ages to get there unless it's ipad or iphone

Marg2k8

The comps that I have posted where I have guessed the end date have tended to be twitter ones, where it really is a total guess when a company might reach say 2000 followers.

It was suggested some time ago that we add the phrase guessedenddate to such competitions, so that end date compers could do a quick daily or weekly search for guessedenddate and that would bring up any such competitions.

Jokey

I agree, guessedenddate works well - but so many people do not use the phrase, in fact there's far more posters that don't use it, than do

Twitter ones I can understand - they ordinarily go quick and are a little more complex.

Web based ones are mostly the issue tbh.

I do try & monitor the board every day & search for the ?? after dates, but it's not always possible & a lot of work. I have tried to comp as they get posted but it's just not for me:o

Blulu

I wonder if it would be more user friendly if it was a shorter and easier code to remember. I very rarely comp by end date, so I'm not sure about this, but can you do a search for "?" in the title? If so, perhaps a better code would simply be the question mark, used after the date for guessed date comps. It's probably how most guessed end dates are written anyway...hang on a mo...I'll try it...

...The answer is no, seems you can't search for a question mark. Or at least I tried this and it found no results. So why am I bothering to post this now pointless post? Because perhaps we could get this changed if peeps think it would work best?

Jokey

No, question marks don't come up in a search - would be ace if it did. There's just no way around it if posters don't put 'guessedenddate'.

Sometimes feel a little penalised for preference of end dating :rotfl:

Ah well, no harm in asking x

becky004

For twitter comps where a certain amount of followers are needed, I tend to guess a date for 50 new followers per day, unless they have never had a comp posted on MSE before, in which case depending on the size of the prize I will make a shorter guesstimate.
I think guessedenddate is a pain to spell, maybe a shorter abbreviation would make people more inclined to use it in their post (IGT - I guessed this, GED - guessed end date etc)