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Totally loved the "A" for advents ...
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Whilst I did not mind the A for advents, just putting (weekly) (Daily) ect in brackets at the end of the title is sufficient, it's a practice that has served us well and does not make more work for the BG's
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Whilst I did not mind the A for advents, just putting (weekly) (Daily) ect in brackets at the end of the title is sufficient, it's a practice that has served us well and does not make more work for the BG's
It was to get rid of the Regulars board which I thought did make more work not only for the BGs but also other posters.Rational judgement, now, at this very moment.
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It was to get rid of the Regulars board which I thought did make more work not only for the BGs but also other posters.
There is probably nothing in there that requires daily BG work. Monthly/Weekly should already be posted each week/month as appropriate on the main board so they don't need any differentiation from other competitions and the dailies in regulars get added to existing threads.0 -
Right we are sitting on a majority in favour of the "OMG" (a bigger one than is taking us out of the EU but I won't go there). So what about if we trial it with Daily competitions first? These are the ones which appear to generate extra posting for people and are easy to miss as an end dater.
Could we try
12/12 where the date is still the overall end date?
perhap as we now have 4 BGs one could just take on expiring the D codes? Or we could go back to posting comps needing expiring in CCC as I know some people actually quite like pressing expired.Rational judgement, now, at this very moment.
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Right we are sitting on a majority in favour of the "OMG" (a bigger one than is taking us out of the EU but I won't go there). So what about if we trial it with Daily competitions first? These are the ones which appear to generate extra posting for people and are easy to miss as an end dater.
Could we try 12/12 where the date is still the overall end date?
perhap as we now have 4 BGs one could just take on expiring the D codes? Or we could go back to posting comps needing expiring in CCC as I know some people actually quite like pressing expired.
How is it useful to split the end-dates up so they no longer all show in one place when the board is sorted into order?
The "majority" represents well under 10% of the people who thank some posts so hardly compelling evidence to change anything.
(How are these producing extra posting for people anyway?)
Taking the EU example 27% of the electorate voted leave while here only 6.3% are "OMG" (using a low figure of 1,000 thanks as the electorate)0 -
How is it useful to split the end-dates up so they no longer all show in one place when the board is sorted into order?)
I agree completely. It seems it would only be useful for those that don't sort the board. Everyone comps in different ways however. It made sense for the advent season, but this is almost akin to "I want a separate board for each type of competition" and generally that was disliked as an option when that was the flavour of the month.
Maybe it would be more useful to get everyone that posts comps to post in the one correct format first, before expanding that to 6 or 7 different letters. I've noticed when I've come on early (before a BG has had a chance to 'tidy') that the ends are a complete mishmash of too many spaces, not putting a 0 on a single digit date, no E:, using e: etc etc.
My personal opinion would be to post the weekly and monthly entries as separate comps, anything on-going to be posted with E: 31/12*, get rid of the Regulars board completely and the 'lists' too, simply because there would be nowhere to house them (maybe CCC?) If you use the lists, then maybe use the subscribed thread function or your browsers bookmarking system.
Whatever the decision will be, there will be some people not happy with it.0 -
Not sure why you think it causes problems for those who sort the board. D makes it really easy to find daily competitions ect in the same way A made finding advent really easy.
I agree that maybe trying it with one extra letter first would be best. So what about D for dailey?Rational judgement, now, at this very moment.
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Not sure why you think it causes problems for those who sort the board. D makes it really easy to find daily competitions ect in the same way A made finding advent really easy.
I agree that maybe trying it with one extra letter first would be best. So what about D for dailey?
If you sort the board at the moment all the posts for say the 14th appear together, if you have different letters they will not.0 -
If you sort the board at the moment all the posts for say the 14th appear together, if you have different letters they will not.
So what? If you are end date comping that means you will have missed every day but the last day.Rational judgement, now, at this very moment.
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So what? If you are end date comping that means you will have missed every day but the last day.
Not quite sure what your point is, even if it was only one day that could be a day missed that wouldn't be at the moment, but end-dating doesn't necessarily mean entering on the last day, it's just entering by date and that could be any number of days before a competition closes.0
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