Exclude game over from searches?

beehummingbird

Is there anyway to exclude posts from game over from search results?

weeowens

Don't think so.What are looking for?

beehummingbird

I'm searching for big prizes, using keywords like holiday, trip, break etc. The kind of competitions where there might be a big entry window.

You only get twelve pages of results though, and the game overs take up a lot of that. So I just wanted to know if there was a way to remove them.

weeowens

Hi,one way of getting around the search is via this link: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72&daysprune=-1&order=asc&sort=popularity&filter=stickies

It's the "popular" comps on the live board.To see the most popular go to the last page & work backwards,if that makes sense :-)

lilrahi

Do an advanced search - and then take the tick out of the child forums radio button.

weeowens

Cheers,lilrahi

I never knew that was possible :-(

beehummingbird

Thank you

lilrahi

weeowens wrote: »

Cheers,lilrahi

I never knew that was possible :-(

I use it to search for ITV comps when I don't have the time to comp to make sure I don't miss them

beehummingbird

I feel really stupid, because I thought it meant that there was a children's version of MSE.

D'oh!

One-Eye

lilrahi wrote: »

Do an advanced search - and then take the tick out of the child forums radio button.

beehummingbird wrote: »

I feel really stupid, because I thought it meant that there was a children's version of MSE.

The main comp board (72) is the Parent, The children are the four sub-boards - IWIWIW (73); Game Over (74); Regulars (93); Compers Chat (215)

Note that unticking the "child forums" button means you are NOT searching for live comps posted in Regulars.

Note also that at the bottom of the advanced search is an option to "Save Search Preferences" so you can untick the button then save so that the button is always unticked when you use advanced search. This only affects advanced search, basic search will still include child forums.

Kirri

beehummingbird wrote: »

I feel really stupid, because I thought it meant that there was a children's version of MSE.

D'oh!

I had no idea what it was either and used to wonder why it was included! I should have asked... this thread has answered something I wanted too as I was fed up searching for specific items and finding most comps were from GO.