Do you find it difficult!?

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To keep track of what you've entered? I know the link shows as bold when you haven't clicked on it, but as soon as someone replies to a message, it becomes bold again... I find myself enterning so many comps that I keep accidentally going back to a message that I've already entered! lol...

you must all have better memories than me!

azp74

Click on the 'Thanks' buton at the bottom of the post once you've entered - next time you read the post it won't show up!

Tyrannical

We all use the 'Thanks' button as a means of keeping track of what we enter, once you enter one thank the OP and you know not to do it again. This is also what we mean by 'check your thanks' if someone accidently duplicates a competition

essexgal

My memory's shot - I'd be entering them more than twice I suspect !

As well as using the thanks button I list it in a word document and then I use the edit functions to see if I've already entered it !! (sometimes if you're too quick the 'thanks' doesn't register)

much easier like this.

hth

essexgal

megazoid

If you click on the thanks button on the the post of the comp you entered then it disapears, so if you go back check to see if the thanks button is there or not, also if a comp is posted again then check if anyone has posted below saying its a duplicate.

Regards

Megazoid

mpython

Hi GoldenJill, welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy it here as much as I do.

Its difficult to tell whether you've entered from the main listing page, but the way a lot of us keep track is by clicking the 'Thanks' button on the Original Post (OP) in the thread. That way if someone bumps the thread back to the top by adding a comment/ clarification/ etc, you can see whether you've entered it.

If a comp happens to get posted twice (& we've all done it), people will often post a link to the original thread and say something like "check your thanks" which you can do if you've clicked it first time around.

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"thanks" to you all ! great advice

mpython

If you're new to 'on-line' comping, you might like to download Roboform (http://www.roboform.com) or a similar piece of software. It stores your name, address, telephone number, mobile etc, and when you arrive on a competition form webpage, you press the icon and it fills out the form for you, saving 1 -2 minutes each time. If you do 30/60 comps a day, you very quickly notice the difference.

If only it knew the answers to the questions as well!

hrafndot

I find the boards so busy and its so easy to "lose" a competition that now if I see a competition that I want to enter but haven't got time there and then, I click on the competiton, go to thread tools at the top of the thread and click on "subscribe to this thread". You then confirm your subscription. The item willl show up in the list with a blue "tick" to show you've subcribed. If you want you can keep this list without unsubscribin until, for instane, the competition has expired and then remove it, alternatively if you stay subscribe you have a list of all your entries. However I would recommend removing them at some point so the database doesn't get clogged up.

If you do this to all the competuitions you want to enter and when you have built up a number of subscriptions for comps you want to enter, go to "User CP" press "list subscriptions" then "list all subscriptions" and it will show you a list of all comps you have subscribed to". You can then enter them at your leisure (best to concentrate on the closing date), the list of of comps won't move around, thank them as you enter and then unsubscribe when you have finished. You will have to do about four clicks using the "back" arrow, but you get used to it!!