Should "Regular Competitions" become "Daily Competitions" (no more weeklies)?

One-Eye

This thread was originally just about re-naming the Regular Competitions sub-forum. The original post is in grey below.

The topic has expanded to include proposals so that weekly comps would be normal comps posted in a new thread on the main board each week ie. there would be no such thing as a weekly comp. This is what happened with monthly comps a couple of years ago.

The proposal always had some support, but with the weeklies index being out of date and nobody maintaining it, and the fact that many weeklies are already posted anew each week, the time may be right to implement the proposal.

No changes at all are proposed to daily competions, but the Regular Competitions sub-forum would become "Daily Entry Competitions"

Any suggestions or comments are welcome.

Please keep the tone positive and constructive, leave the bickering and negativity to those fighting the General Election.

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We currently have a sub-forum (f=93) named:

Regular Competitions
The place for weekly, monthly comps etc

Some people interpret "regular" as "normal", and post one-off comps on there that should be on the main board.
Also, monthly competitions should not be posted there at all.

I suggest it is renamed, for example:

Recurring Competitions
Comps you can re-enter every day or every week.

Daily & Weekly Competitions
Comps you can re-enter every day or every week.

Daily & Weekly Competitions
Multiple Entry & Enter Early comps

Any thoughts?

BlueBella

Yes, I'm in agreement with 'Recurring Competitions'

Zanzib

Yes, that would be a better title.

mjm3346

Wouldn't do any harm to change it and certainly the Tag line could do with updating to make it clearer what the section contains but as the "misposted?" ones seem to have a good percentage of self-promotion among them it might not make much difference to them.

thekiwibex

One-Eye wrote: »

Also, monthly competitions should not be posted there at all.

Any thoughts?

Certainly I think that sub-forum needs tidying up, and it needs to be made clearer what it's for, whatever that might be! I've not been here a hugely long time, so don't know what the history of it is - what kind of competitions are meant to be posted there?

I've always assumed it's for any comps that are not one-offs and recur on any kind of basis, whether that be daily, weekly, monthly, whatever. How come monthly comps are not meant to be posted there?

cagsd

I agree, I've often seen normal comps posted in there by people who must presume that "regular" means normal or run of the mill web comps! I also think "Recurring Comps" or even just "Daily / Weekly Comps" would be a better name.

One-Eye

Anybody else want to contribute?

sax11

I agree with them being 'recurring'

fire**fly

thekiwibex wrote: »

How come monthly comps are not meant to be posted there?

hi, monthly comps used to have their own 'sticky' & sub forum,

ie: here..
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3143838

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/42441712#Comment_42441712

& we used to have ones like this..

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1042171

but ages ago there was a poll/vote/ or something like that & it was agreed to have it took off & all monthly comps posted on main board only.

Nix143

Makes sense - I'll stick a vote in for recurring as well.....




And then I tried to be smart and find the wee dot that goes over a decimal to signify that it is recurring and well, here I am, dotless and minus 10 minutes of life I can't get back

fire**fly

One-Eye wrote: »

Anybody else want to contribute?

just

daily/weekly comps.
Comps you can re-enter every day or every week.