Wrongly expired comps?

Elsbells21

Hi All,

I have returned to comping (yay! :j) and started by key word search... it would appear to me that there are an awful lot of expired comps that are not actually expired. I'm not sure if there is a reason for this, so serious apologies if I have just come along and trod on anyone's toes. Happy to pm a board guide if suitable?

The examples I have are specifically for Your Home Magazine, but there was another one and unfortunately I cannot find it again:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235156
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235155
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235628
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235109
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235108
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235106

What do you guys think?

LizB62

You're right - not sure why they've been expired

There is a thread somewhere where people post links to the comps that need to be expired - maybe someone was tidying up and got a bit carried away !

For what it's worth, I'd say yes - go ahead and PM a BG

And now I'm wondering if there are many others like these !

Thanks & welcome back

Elsbells21

LizB62 wrote: »

You're right - not sure why they've been expired

There is a thread somewhere where people post links to the comps that need to be expired - maybe someone was tidying up and got a bit carried away !

For what it's worth, I'd say yes - go ahead and PM a BG

And now I'm wondering if there are many others like these !

Thanks & welcome back

I think there are... I have tried to go back through my history but being a bit stupid and can't find it. I'm sure there was a big ticket TV and I thought I saw it in GO but thought 'oh must be mistaken'.

Thanks for the welcome back, will Pm a BG

Elsbells21

PM'd both Glad and Dalkirst

LizB62

I'm in the middle of a bunch of comps at the moment so once I clear those, I'll have a look at the Closed comps for the rest of this week (in case it's not just 03/06 that has been incorrectly expired....)
If I find any that are still open I'll put a comment on them and then PM a BG to get them moved back - hopefully there aren't too many !

** Update - I found about a dozen: Glad is already moving them back :-)

mjm3346

Elsbells21 wrote: »

Hi All,

I have returned to comping (yay! :j) and started by key word search... it would appear to me that there are an awful lot of expired comps that are not actually expired. I'm not sure if there is a reason for this, so serious apologies if I have just come along and trod on anyone's toes. Happy to pm a board guide if suitable?

The examples I have are specifically for Your Home Magazine, but there was another one and unfortunately I cannot find it again:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235156
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235155
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235628
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235109
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235108
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5235106

What do you guys think?

It takes more than 2 people pressing expired to move them to GO, seems unlikely to me that more than 2 people would accidentally have expired competitions ending 03/07 as it is not even 03/06 and these were posted on 06/05.

LizB62

Just curious - how do you know that only 2 people pressed Expired?

Also, I only looked at comps ending between tomorrow (02/06) and 10/06 and found more than a dozen

I wondered if maybe somebody just didn't stop in time when they were running down the list of comps that expired on 02/05, 03/05 etc. ?

(updated as I can't read !)

mjm3346

LizB62 wrote: »

Just curious - how do you know that only 2 people pressed Expired?

Also, I only looked at comps ending between tomorrow (02/06) and 10/06 and found more than a dozen

I wondered if maybe somebody just didn't stop in time when they were running down the list of comps that expired on 02/05, 03/05 etc. ?

(updated as I can't read !)

It takes more than 2 people pressing expired for them to move so more than 2 people would need to have made the same mistake to move them.

LizB62

That's what I thought - maybe people are clicking on the urls on the "Got a few spare mins" thread and not realising that the links are now out of date , and just not checking all the end dates before clicking expired ?

Stoodles

Isn"t a url attached to the thread wherever it sits? Otherwise, how would we know when we click that that thread HAD gone to GO and be able to note this on the thread?

mjm3346

Stoodles wrote: »

Isn"t a url attached to the thread wherever it sits? Otherwise, how would we know when we click that that thread HAD gone to GO and be able to note this on the thread?

For the individual post links that is true but if a link to a "sorted" result is posted then every time a competition is added/removed to the main board then the link will lead to different competitions.
The link below originally lead to page 15 of an ascending sort by thread title, when it was posted that was competitions ending around 20/05 the same link now shows 07/06



http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72&pp=100&sort=title&order=asc&daysprune=-1&page=15