Competitions Discussion Thread Part 4

littleholly

hjb123 wrote: »

Divadee, everything you have said makes perfect sense and I for one am not upset at anything you said, it all needed saying. People are finding all sorts of wierd and wonderful ways of writing the expiry dates now, that is if they are put in:D

The friendliness of the forum does seem to have gone downhill in the past month or so with people bickering between themselves and bossing eachother about

Anyway before I get shouted down/at thats my opinion:D

Completely agree with you and Divadee. Things seem to have changed on here for the worst recently. Lets hope people read Diva's comments!

divadee

thanks hjb123

i do get a bit protective. Myself and Foxy helped set up this board so i am really proud of how my baby so to speak has grown. BUT!!, I dont know why all of a sudden everything is a problem to a minority of users.

Hopefully the new clarification above will help sort it out!

divadee

I think I might post the above in a new thread as well just so people can see it!!

littleholly

divadee wrote: »

I think I might post the above in a new thread as well just so people can see it!!

I think it would be a good idea to make it into a sticky and hopefully it will attract readers!

princessmoneysaver

I for one would be sad to see the comp end threads to go but I respect your decision.

divadee

princessmoneysaver wrote: »

I for one would be sad to see the comp end threads to go but I respect your decision.

thanks princess, for that.

I know they are popular for some, but they take up a lot of board resources, especially recently when it all went wrong and people got upset because they had done one and someone else had as well etc...

The board has been going for 4 years now, and all the board guides feel that it has been running fine as it was.

We are not adverse with change and do as much as we can to please teh majority of compers. But as the site grows and we get more and more comps posted the rules ned to be enforced that little bit more.

monsieur_epargnant

OK that mean we have your OK to enforce the expiry date?

By doing so I'll make every attempt to 'educate' the 'Competitions Ending' users how to re-sort the forums display so they can see the expiry dates grouped together. BGs will have to change NOTHING.

divadee

monsieur_epargnant wrote: »

OK that mean we have your OK to enforce the expiry date?

By doing so I'll make every attempt to 'educate' the 'Competitions Ending' users how to re-sort the forums display so they can see the expiry dates grouped together. BGs will have to change NOTHING.

you do m_e but can i ask that all users do it tactfully!!!! the comps board i think is the friendliest (sp??) board on here!! and i wouldnt want that to change. So something like

'To comply with the expiry date rule, please could you change your date to read E: ??/?? . Many Thanks xx'


or something similar.

ellasmommy

Oh damn, ive been putting off loads of comps so that i could enter them with the closing date threads!!!! :eek:

I understand the frustration of having closing comps all the way to the end of the month but cant we just have them 1 day ahead and thats it? They are sooooo useful & i also will be so sad to see them stop!xx

monsieur_epargnant

We have this morning been instructed by the forum board guides to cease creating these 'Competitions Ending' lists. The last one will be the 29/02 and all dates up till then will still be completed.

PLEASE DON'T PANIC

There is a very simple way for us to change how the forums is displayed. It will re-sort the competitions listing by the title instead and therefore group expiry dates together making them easier to find.

Please take the time to understand this as it will remain the ONLY way to find comps by the end date. I suggest you open another window/tab with THIS PAGE so you can see exactly what I'm on about.


When you first look at page 1 of the 'Competitions Time' you'll see it displayed in the 'default' method of LAST POST. You can check this by looking for the little triangle next to 'Last Post'. This way shows the most recent message displayed.. all the way back to the oldest.

Any of those blue column headers can be clicked on instead and therefore altering the way the entire list is displayed.

The one we'll need to start using is the header 'THREAD'. (The one right next to it sorts the display into order of who posted the thread first and although handy to some is not part of this explanation.)

By clicking on THREAD you'll alter the way the entire list is displayed and this time by the title of each thread. Now why is this important? Well each post should now display the end date of the comp (eg. E: 01/03). When you look at the list filtered by THREAD it will be sequentially ordered by date. MAGIC!!

To change the list back simply click once again on LAST POST to re-order it back in the default manner.


Please try this out.

You may also note that there is a large number of different ways people write the expiry date. I'm onto that too and will talk at length about it later.