Tagging in Competitions Time

MSE_Stephen

UPDATE 11 May: Tags are now live in Competitions Time.

 

If you haven’t already, please take a look at the new tag-following system, which lets you follow tags you’re interested in and could really help improve the section: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/tagging-page

 

At the moment, tags are not especially prominent, but that will change in the coming months when we move to a new layout. In that layout, tags will be much more visible on the competitions list and should make it easier to find the types of competitions you’re interested in.

 

🙏 For now, please, please could you use tags whenever possible when posting competitions? 🙏

 

It would really help us build up a useful bank of well-tagged open competitions, ready for when tags become more prominent in the new layout.

Please don’t worry about getting everything perfect. Just add the tags that seem most useful and relevant to the competition you’re posting.

 

Thanks again for all your feedback and help with this. We’ll keep listening, reviewing how tags are being used, and making improvements where needed.

Hi everyone,

Following on from

this post

, I'm planning out Tagging on Competitions time. 
Starting off with a pilot test for 'Entry Method' tags.
If Compers find them useful, we can keep them and even add more in future if there is demand.
If they aren't useful, we can disable them. 

Please let us know what entry methods you would like to have a tag?

One-Eye

I will comment on the other thread w.r.t. my opinions of tagging

Here is my first draft for possible entry method tagging.

Main Methods
A1 - Website (Entry Form)           (DEFAULT - so may not be needed?)
A2 - email
A3 - Survey
A4 - App                                       (you need to download & use a 3rd party App)

MSE user derived categories
M0 - Daily Entry
M1 - Enter Early                          (single entry comps with multiple draws until a final end date)
M2 - Newsletter                           (newsletter sign-up is compulsory to enter)
M3 - MD - Mag Daily
M4 - RS - Raffle Site
M5 - On Air
M6 - Effort                                   (you need to write a story or submit a photo etc)
M7 - Collect                                (prize must be collected)
M8 - Geographical Restrictions  (this is my suggestion for a new one that is needed)

Contest Platforms                     (in my opinion these could be combined as a single tag)
G1 - GL - Gleam
G2 - VS - ViralSweep
G3 - SW - Sweepwidget
G4 - RP - Rafflepress
G5 - KS - Kingsumo
G6 - Woobox                               (I suspect this is not needed)

Social Media
S1 - IG - Instagram
S2 - FB - Facebook
S3 - TT - Tik Tok
S4 - X - Twitter

Post, Phone, Text
P1 - Post
P2 - Phone
P3 - Text

Dan29

One-Eye said:

I will comment on the other thread w.r.t. my opinions of tagging

Here is my first draft for possible entry method tagging.

Main Methods
A1 - Entry Form                           (DEFAULT - so may not be needed?)
A2 - email
A3 - App                                       (you need to download & use a 3rd party App)

MSE user derived categories
M1 - Enter Early                          (single entry comps with multiple draws until a final end date)
M2 - Newsletter                           (newsletter sign-up is compulsory to enter)
M3 - MD - Mag Daily
M4 - RS - Raffle Site
M5 - On Air
M6 - Effort                                   (you need to write a story or submit a photo etc)
M7 - Collect                                (prize must be collected)
M8 - Geographical Restrictions  (this is my suggestion for a new one that is needed)

Contest Platforms                     (in my opinion these could be combined as a single tag)
G1 - GL - Gleam
G2 - VS - ViralSweep
G3 - SW - Sweepwidget
G4 - Woobox                               (I suspect this is not needed)

Social Media
S1 - IG - Instagram
S2 - FB - Facebook
S3 - TT - Tik Tok

Post, Phone, Text
P1 - Post
P2 - Phone
P3 - Text

Sorry if I've missed something but do we think that some comps are "Daily" (but not "Mag Daily" or "Gleam" etc), so could maybe benefit from a tag?

One-Eye

Dan29 said

Sorry if I've missed something but do we think that some comps are "Daily" (but not "Mag Daily" or "Gleam" etc), so could maybe benefit from a tag?

Of course - I was wondering who would spot that - © Capt. Mainwaring

BootsMullery

Should platforms include Kingsumo and Rafflepress?

Social Media - X (Twitter)

Method - Survey

Would Entry Form be better described as Website?

One-Eye

BootsMullery said:

Should platforms include Kingsumo and Rafflepress?

Social Media - X (Twitter)

Method - Survey

Would Entry Form be better described as Website?

Added to the list.

MSE_Stephen

Hi everyone,

Please keep your suggestions for tags coming. Particularly the handful of tags you think we should start off with.

We may try adding a small amount of key tags even before we move to new layouts that make tags really powerful - just so that they're all ready, in place and being used.

As a sneak peak at one great new tag feature, when we upgrade you'll be able to follow tags to get notifications when a new comp is posted with that tag

Comping_Rich

How about a "purchase necessary" tag for competitions that require purchasing a product/ newspaper as long as it is within the MSE limit.

MSE_Stephen

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81981800#Comment_81981800

I'm not sure that'd be useful with current tagging tools? -

Seems to me that you'd want that to be able to exclude those comps from what you're viewing (unless you like paying!), but unfortunately, the tagging filters aren't sophisticated enough to let you exclude a tag you don't want in the results.

Edit: My mind maybe too focussed on the filters! - I guess it could be useful if displayed on the list view so you can see before opening.

redfox5

Are we going to be able to skip the tagging part or will it become compulsory when posting a thread?

MSE_Stephen

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81989495#Comment_81989495

We don't have the technical ability to require tagging only for Comps Time at the moment - Mandatory tagging would have to be enabled site-wide, which, I think would be overly complex for most boards - asking users to figure out a tag for every single thread.

If the ability ever is available to make it mandatory just for Comps, then I'd emphasise that what we're doing is very much in response to member feedback, so let us know what you think is best in threads like this one, or the Have your say on the future of Completions Time thread.