E: 30/06 Win a family holiday worth £5,000

clarejw

CD 30/06/14 John West (as in tinned fish!!) website
Prize draw to win a Thomson voucher for £5,000

Good luck,
Clare

weeowens

clarejw wrote: »

CD 30/06/14 John West (as in tinned fish!!) website
Prize draw to win a Thomson voucher for £5,000

Good luck,
Clare

Two secs as I think it is a dupe.

here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4806508

I will pm a BG re a merge.

Thanks for the comp.

clarejw

I will get the hang of this and the jargon! I did a search and couldn't find it.

weeowens

clarejw wrote: »

I will get the hang of this and the jargon! I did a search and couldn't find it.

No problem at all.What did you use as key words on the search?

phantom74

clarejw wrote: »

I will get the hang of this and the jargon! I did a search and couldn't find it.

I have made the same mistake :beer:

clarejw

John West. I have a feeling I did a general search of whole site! What does I will PM a BG re a merge mean?

weeowens

clarejw wrote: »

I will get the hang of this and the jargon! I did a search and couldn't find it.

clarejw wrote: »

John West. I have a feeling I did a general search of whole site! What does I will PM a BG re a merge mean?

Hi,it means that I will message a BG & get this thread merged with other one.Please do not delete your post after the merge.

Two secs & I will post some guides.

weeowens

More Advanced
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1014121

1 What do I do if I see a comp which has already expired / been posted on here? / How do I send a merge request to a Board Guide?
On any page of the Forum, towards the bottom right of the page under the list of comp threads, it says who the Board Guides (BGs) are for this forum. Below is the current list:

**Note: Whilst an additional BG is being selected please be gentle with Dalkirst and Glad - they will be rushed off their feet!!

If you click a BG name, it will take you to their profile page, over on the right is the 'Contact Info' & you should see a link to 'Send a private message to xxxx'

If you click that, a Private Message (PM) box will display & then all you need to do is put a title (eg Merge Request Please), then tell the BG what the Original Thread URL & the Dupe Thread URL is. (Highlight the URL of a thread in the bar at the top of the browser screen & right click > copy. Then click your mouse back into the PM box & right click > paste). You can ‘Preview Message’ to see how it will look, if you want, before you click to ‘Submit message’.

Please try to spread your requests across all BGs so we don’t overload just 1 of them, as they are volunteers to help the board run smoothly & do want the time to enter & post some comps too!

Please also post on the duplicate comp thread that it is a dupe, include a link to the original thread & if you mention that you have sent a merge request to whichever BG you sent it to, then that will save others doing exactly the same thing & bombarding the poor BGs with multiple requests for the same thing.

weeowens

2 How do I search to see if a comp has been posted?
The Forum Search is not foolproof although if you take a couple of easy steps then it can help you not to post duplicate comps.

On any Forum page, just above where the threads are listed you will see the option to ‘Search this Forum’, click this & then select ‘Advanced Search’.

A new screen will open, which is the Advanced Search screen & seems to be more responsive to searches.

Please refer to the image below for numbered steps.

1. Key Words.
   Take the main part of a comp page address (URL) & type / paste it here.
   For Example, if http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/competitions/show/id/2704 is the comp page, use keyword: goodtoknow.co.uk
   Also, for the radio comps, try searching for the part of the url that starts '/Article...' it should bring up the other stations if they have been posted.
   
   I recommend you only use the main part of the comp URL as sometimes comps change location on a site.
   
   If that search brings back too many results, then try using a word from the comp which will have been used if it was posted on MSE to narrow it down slightly.
   For Example, goodtoknow.co.uk watch
   
   You could also use the answer to search again, just to ensure you aren’t about to post a comp that is already on here.
2. Search Forums.
   If Competitions Time is not already highlighted in the list, simply scroll down the list & click on it to highlight.
3. Also search in child forums.
   Ensure this box is ticked, it means the search will also check in Competitions Time sub forums (the I won! Forum, the Game Over Forum & the Regular Competitions Forum).

Click on the 'Search Now' button & it will bring back a list of results. Read through the list carefully to see if the comp has already been posted. Repeat the search a couple of times with different search criteria to be more certain that the comp is a new one.

Something else to be aware of is that it can take a couple of hours for the forum software to include new threads into the search function. If you take a quick glance down the last couple of pages of threads to check for comps that sound similar to the one you are about to post & don’t see anything then you are about ready to post a new comp!

Another way some MSE Compers use to search for specific comps is to use the Google Search Engine. If you wanted to search for, say, Kung Fu Panda comps in the forum then you would type:
"Kung Fu Panda" "competition" site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com
(Please note the placement of the speech marks as that is very important!)
This would then return results relating to your search request.

sax11

posted here already

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4806508

but thanks