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Have your say on the future of Competitions Time

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  • MSE_Stephen
    MSE_Stephen Posts: 990 Community Admin
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    I've just added a Tagging in Competitions Time thread for suggestions.
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  • binna
    binna Posts: 363 Forumite
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     i like the checkboxes so i know which i've entered and which I don't want to. I would also like something that's more clearer on individual posts (like the puzzler ones) where I can see where I last entered from one of those posts. the thanks button used to be good for this. 
    Being able to search by type would also be useful. I don't enter the instagram ones for example so would be good to be able to omit them. 
    I like being able to organise in end date order too
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  • jmw33
    jmw33 Posts: 48 Forumite
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    I agree with the comments on social media competitions - I don't do these either so it would be good to have Facebook, Instagram etc on a separate thread.  
  • pebbles691
    pebbles691 Posts: 74 Forumite
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    I usually go through each page clicking x if not automatically interested and opening up others that I am interested in. It would be helpful if these links automatically popped into a new screen, instead of doing this manually so can still have access to the original thread. Once entered I click green or save to my own phones favourites to enter later.

    For the puzzler ones I go in separately and hit thanks to recognise entry however I find it very difficult to see if I have thanked them. It’s not as obvious as the green/red boxes and usually I need to click again to see if the number goes up or down to recognise if I had previously thanked them. 

    I don’t enter social media posts, is it possible to have these in a separate thread? That may be a personal preference rather than something many people agree with.

    In the past I found the expiry dates (closing soon) very helpful but I haven’t used that as much since I started competitions again. 
  • dangler
    dangler Posts: 189 Forumite
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    Hi everyone

    Just one other thing I'd like some feedback on - How do you use the manually entered date in the Title? - 

    "E: 10/07"

    Do you glance at this while you're working through the list of comps?
    Do you Search for dates?
    Do you use it in some other way?
    I use this as the title to move to my Google bookmarks and then this allows sorting when I enter in batches
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