Call me paranoid, if you like, but....

Blulu

...a thought occurred to me today...
What if Martin Lewis wanted to get rid of the comping section of his forum? From all I've observed, he is a nice guy. I think he would be reluctant to simply close our comping sections down. What he might well prefer, would be to make it a lot less 'user friendly' and hope that we all drifted away.
I'm not saying that is what is happening for sure, but I do think it is a possibility. It would explain why he has allowed these changes that affect our use of the forum so badly, and why there are no real signs of any of our complaints being addressed.

Blu XX

Snow_Igloo

Well said Blu and what I’m thinking too. 

ikkle87

I think you're paranoid, on both his tv show and his regular newsletter he has used comping and large wins as a way to drive traffic to the site.

BlueBella

I think paranoia could be creeping in with all what is going on in the world, eg with coronavirus etc..... I think they will eventually get round to working on our requests but we are maybe not on their list of high priorities!  It is a shame, as they will have many people leaving in the meantime, but who keep popping back in the hope that changes have been made.  I currently use this forum along with Loquax but hope to return here permanently once changes have been made.  If however, they aren't being made, or at least gradually being made, I will be returning less and less until not at all.... (that is if the coronavirus doesn't kill me first!)

Makeandsave

I think what would be nice is a update when they can with what is still to come and time frames.

grannybiker

Makeandsave said:

I think what would be nice is a update when they can with what is still to come and time frames.

No end in sight and a lack of proper updates with time-frames is what's frustrating many of us.
No wonder some are feeling that they're dropping the comps board by stealth.
Combine real difficulties using the site that makes efficient comping impossible among even the most flexible of us with lack of comps as posters move over to other sites... you get what you see here 

mjm3346

BlueBella said:

 I think they will eventually get round to working on our requests but we are maybe not on their list of high priorities!  

There were many months of testing before going live and nothing is asked for that wasn't already available on the old forum so there shouldn't be a need to request these basic functions or for them to be anywhere on a list of priorities as they are things that should have been available anyway - instead they spent time on  "We are migrating the 'Entered' and 'Skipped' buttons for the Competitions Time boards, but importing the data will take a little longer - there are 170 million competition entries and 320 million skips" - well doing the bulk  (99% plus) of this was just a complete waste of time as the overwhelming numbers come from "game over"  - (nearly 1,000,000 threads in there compared to less than 2,500 active threads on the main comp board) the vast majority of users wouldn't have been bothered in the slightest if the "game over" section  had been completely wiped and restarted or if just the last year had been brought over.

jmilli2

Moving the skips from one database to another would take one line of code and that's it. It would take minutes. Unless they've got monkeys manually marking each one in a secret lab somewhere.

Blulu

All interesting comments, thanks.

But I'm still thinking that if he really wants to keep compers happy, and active here, that he would at least be providing us with info and reassurance.

Yes, there is the feedback section re the changes. But surely he has someone monitoring what his users are saying about the changes. And if so, he knows that lots of us are not happy, and several are migrating elsewhere, seemingly, including Laks.

I don't know if MSE will address our concerns in time or not. But if they are planning too, and want us to be patient while they're sorting it, then they should put the effort in to keep us informed. After all, he did warn us that the changes were coming. So why can't he just post, or get one of the team to post, in CCC every now and then, in a effort to try to keep us on board?

I honestly think that if he is not doing this, it is quite likely because he want to close the comping section. He is too smart not to be aware of what is happening. If he's not addressing it in way that keeps us happy, it is for a reason.

Blu XXX

mjm3346

The forum team do not monitor what the users are saying elsewhere - which means comments made elsewhere do not need to be taken into account by the team and do not "start a clock running" in terms of getting anything changed.


"The team members don't moderate the site and they don't read the several thousand posts on this forum every day."
 
"We keep a regular eye on the Site Feedback board and do discuss issues mentioned there behind the scenes. In the past due to lack of time we’ve not always replied to posts made there, but just focused on dealing with them as soon as we could. We're now trying to post on there more often to let you know what’s going on and hopefully it's helping."

Blulu

mjm, I get that they don't generally monitor the thousands of other posts on the forum, under normal circumstances. But given all the changes that have just been made, and given that they definitely know, from site feedback at least, that compers are not happy with those changes, I still believe that Martin Lewes is far too astute to not to have his team keep up to speed with CCC and perhaps one or two other places on the forum too. We might have to agree to disagree about this one, my friend

Blu XXX