Competitions Ending 20/02

g4fne · 16 February 2008 at 12:24PM

Thankyou ... as already stated much appreciated

zena2105 · 18 February 2008 at 9:40AM

Thanks Its Great:j

pink2007 · 18 February 2008 at 10:56AM

thank you so so much! :T

monsieur_epargnant · 18 February 2008 at 11:47AM

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 (Thread/ThreadStarter/Last Post/Replies/Views) 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.

Knightowl · 19 February 2008 at 8:15AM

I thought this was worth a bump in case anybody missed the last message and also to reveal my discovery that the "Jersey Boys" are NOT the Val Doonican tribute band I thought they wear:D (pardon the pun)

oh

Ren and Stimpy roolz:D

Platty764 · 19 February 2008 at 10:41AM

monsieur_epargnant wrote: »

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.

Ok i've used these list before and thought it was a great thing for someone to spend there own time and do this for the community but having been away for a couple of weeks and only had limited access to the tinterweb I'm wondering what I missed that would cause such a problem with these list. Could anyone elaborate?

littleholly · 19 February 2008 at 10:47AM

Platty764 wrote: »

Ok i've used these list before and thought it was a great thing for someone to spend there own time and do this for the community but having been away for a couple of weeks and only had limited access to the tinterweb I'm wondering what I missed that would cause such a problem with these list. Could anyone elaborate?

All the info is here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=749381

seasider007 · 19 February 2008 at 10:59AM

As Platty764 mentions above, i also seem to have missed the fallout over the lists, personally i think they are an excellent way of catching up on comps for people who don't have as much time to play catch-up. Big thanks to those who give their time to compile the lists.
:A:A

monsieur_epargnant · 19 February 2008 at 11:28AM

g4fne · 19 February 2008 at 11:36AM

I also echo similar sentiments in that i also thought the "Competition Ending" threads were an excellent addition to the forum & had it of been given more of a chance & perhaps a few guidelines (ie ... not posting until few days before end date) then i am unable to see why so much fuss was caused

.... surely, anything that makes peoples lives a litle easier benefits the "fun" element of the site :j

In my opinion the real answer is to allow the site to search by date correctly, having read the instruction on how to date order the threads, it seems a much more primitive way to me & frankly does not work as it batches all kinds of dates together

Finally, i would also like to thank the people for their hard work, contribution & general initiative in the "comp ending" threads ... it was a great idea & i for one, would welcome it back anytime :money:

Competitions Ending 20/02

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