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One-Eye said:Blulu said:pate-ci0 I can't see anything that says Polls. I'm about as tech savvy as a gerbil. Cancel that, a gerbil can work a spinning wheel.
2. Click on "Discussions" button
3. Click on "Sort By" and select "Newest"
4. Click on "Category" and scroll down and select "Competitions Time"
5. Click to select "Search Subcategories"
6. Click to deselect "Polls"
7. Click on the "Filter" button
8. Click to throw laptop out of the window
9. Click to take up stamp collecting instead
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libra10 said:I'm with you @Blulu
It all seems unnecessarily complicated for most of us who use the forums.
Surely there should be an easier and speedier way to do a simple search.
and at 72 I am not tech savvy.I do it just for fun and whatever I win is a bonus2 -
Jambo ,I'm sure you're right, but I doubt I'm alone in saying that I don't want to have to get used to it. I don't post that many comps. I just want something simple and obvious, like you get with most other searches. Apart from anything, having to 'get used to it' wouldn't be great for encouraging new folk to join us. I guess, one man's turnip is another man's poison (I changed it for any vegans reading this.)
Blu XXXI am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apology
THIS IS ME!
When you talk down to others it says more about you than them.3 -
This is what I mean about having to press things to reveal things, it’s not obvious, nor is having to type in more letters to get past Debate House Prices. How many other things am I missing? I didn’t realise the filter was another thing, I thought it was part of “discussions” (which is actually “categories” instead of “categories” being categories, which is also not obvious especially when another part is discussions/polls)1
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I guess the Search function has to satisfy the requirements of the whole of MSE, not just the Competitions Forum (though I would hazard a guess that it is mostly used by compers on a day to day basis!), so it may need to be a bit more complicated than we would like. However, I do wonder how important Polls are to the rest of the site users; certainly I have only encountered a couple in the years I've been using MSE and would never want to search for them, so feel their prominence in Search is unnecessary.0
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What about trying to find comps that are finishing on a specific date eg E:14/08? - it brings up all dates.
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compingtinkertink2010 said:What about trying to find comps that are finishing on a specific date eg E:14/08? - it brings up all dates.
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One-Eye said:compingtinkertink2010 said:What about trying to find comps that are finishing on a specific date eg E:14/08? - it brings up all dates.0
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I keep getting different results! Just now I got one solitary result for "14/08"0
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