Better comping system with the new style forum - I think

One-Eye

smitchy73 said:

I start at page 1 each day, enter all the new one's that I want to, click enter and compliment(when working), if it's the likes of the radio comps for large amounts or daily, I bookmark them.  I go through the pages until I find where I left off the day before or last time I was in.  

The main problem of working this way is if you don't have time to reach the place where you left off last time. You could find you have done pages 1 & 2, have not done 3 & 4 and have done page 5 onwards.
Also if you use the default sorting of the forum (by last post time) there is the problem that when you've done page 1 and you're going through page 2, a comp from page 3 can be bumped to page 1 and you might miss it.

grannybiker

All of these are versions of  "As posted" and how I comped when I first started. However, we had a week away and I found it overwhelming trying to catch up. So many comps being posted back then. 
Comping by end date is pretty much impossible as entered / skipped can't be seen in search, Can bookmarks?

redfox5

I'm the same, I start from page 1 until I hit the comps I've already entered. Then I go back to page 1 to see if any have been added.

This only works because I'm able to check daily at the moment. Might not be the best way once I start working again! 

Blulu

Thank you all for your kind replies.

It seems to me that there is an obvious and clear 'winner', in respect of which is the best system. Clearly the best system is...

Whichever suits us best, individually.

Having said that, it's probably helpful to have a discussion about it, occasionally, as one system mentioned might inspire someone to try a new approach.

Happy comping Guys

Blu XXX

randomchiick

Sorry if I'm slow but is there still no way to get the daily emails?

amsquared

I do the same as smitchy73 for the main comps thread.

For Take A Break Puzzle Magazines and Puzzler.com I've started keeping a simple notebook page open on my desktop and I just cut and paste the details of last comp I entered  since there is no easy way of knowing which ones I've entered without scrolling through compliments. I tried relying on the New posts tag but found that I had missed a few entries if the New posta spread on to a new page. For example - here is todays notepad paste.

Regular Comps

Take A Break Puzzle Magazines P320 E: 28/05 My Favourite Puzzles May p75 - £50 - answer = KRISTEN STEWART

PUZZLER p60 Q Cash Competition Competition ID: 13450 answer - WIDE

I only use Bookmarks for Postal/Txt comps and the daily Radio Comps so I do open every comp so I can Skip or Enter it. Maybe need to rethink this.

For the Magazine Daily Comps I use my own set of links to the home page of each of the Magazine's Comps. I login and then open a new Window for each Comp I want to enter for that Magazine. I do the Mags in Groups so for example I open separate windows for every comps I want to enter in the following 6 Mags - Mens Health, Country Living, Goodhousekeeping, Housebeautiful, Cosmo and Prima and work from Window to Window and enter each one. All these Mags behave the same way and force a wait of 10 seconds before the Congratulations message so I just move windows about while waiting for the Congratulations message. After the last Congrats message I close all the windows at once. I suppose this could be done with Tabs as well. It helps having a large monitor.

I rarely do any of the Instagram and Facebook Comps if they ask for Tags or Shares. On Facebook it's against their Ts&Cs to ask for a Tag or Share but it isn't policed. If it's a comp I would really like to enter on FB I send a message to the page owner telling them that they are breaking FBs Ts&Cs and have had some success getting them to change the entry method. Allegedly Facebook downgrade a page if it indulges in Engagement Baiting (Facebooks own term). I wonder whether there could be a separate thread for Social Media comps which I could ignore instead of opening and skipping them all. Ive just looked at the last 400 live comps posted and about 25% are Instagram comps.

Marg2k8

amsquared said:

For the Magazine Daily Comps I use my own set of links to the home page of each of the Magazine's Comps. I login and then open a new Window for each Comp I want to enter for that Magazine. I do the Mags in Groups so for example I open separate windows for every comps I want to enter in the following 6 Mags - Mens Health, Country Living, Goodhousekeeping, Housebeautiful, Cosmo and Prima and work from Window to Window and enter each one. All these Mags behave the same way and force a wait of 10 seconds before the Congratulations message so I just move windows about while waiting for the Congratulations message. After the last Congrats message I close all the windows at once. I suppose this could be done with Tabs as well. It helps having a large monitor.

Please can I ask you is there an easy way to open each comp in a new window rather than a new tab? 

One-Eye

Marg2k8 said
Please can I ask you is there an easy way to open each comp in a new window rather than a new tab?

Open in a new window: Shift+Click
Open in a new tab: Ctrl+Click