MSE Offers Sub-boards - your feedback needed

Former_MSE_Andrea · 6 January 2017 at 2:08PM

Hi everyone

What are MSE Blagged offers?

Last year we started posting MSE blagged offers on the Forum as well as on the main site so you could grab them directly here and our team could help out with any queries (as announced here).

Why sub-boards?

We're going to be doing this more throughout the year and we're looking into setting up sub-boards where we'd post all MSE Blagged offers relevant to that area. The idea is that you can easily see the offers all in one place and can come back and ask questions if you have them eg when cashback is due.

Expired offer threads would have a clear, official MSE insert posted in the top to say they're no longer available so you'd don't try to apply for an old offer. The discussion would stay open, though, so you can ask questions later on.

An alternative idea was to have a single MSE Offers board or sub-board for all offers but we felt you might not see the offers there.

We're starting with a trial next week to see how it goes and we'd like to get your feedback, both now and during the trial.

If you have a thought, a suggestion, a fab idea how we could do it better, or even not at all if you feel it affects your forum experience, please let us know on this thread.

Thanks in advance for your help

Former_MSE_Andrea · 11 January 2017 at 10:14AM

Morning everyone!

It would be great to get your feedback on this.

Thanks

Andrea

SabNys · 13 January 2017 at 1:28PM

I tried to find an old post by using "Search by Username" in Advanced Search. But no suggestions appeared in the dropdown. After several failed attempts, I tried changing the initial letter to upper case. That worked. So the username search is case-sensitive.

In every forum that I use (for example, Evernote, TenForums), username searches are not case-sensitive.

As an experiment, I did separate keyword searches for "drawdown" and "Drawdown". I got the same number of search results. So keyword searches are not case-sensitive.

I would be grateful for the reason why usernames are case-sensitive.

Thanks.

Biggles · 13 January 2017 at 2:05PM

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Morning everyone!

It would be great to get your feedback on this.

When does it start and where will the new forum be?

fredandwilma · 15 January 2017 at 9:10AM

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

We're starting with a trial next week to see how it goes and we'd like to get your feedback, both now and during the trial.

If you have a thought, a suggestion, a fab idea how we could do it better, or even not at all if you feel it affects your forum experience, please let us know on this thread.

Thanks in advance for your help

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Morning everyone!

It would be great to get your feedback on this.

Thanks

Andrea

I would say the feedback so far, speaks volumes?

Nothing is particularly clear?

Also, this thread is easy to "pass" as it's a sticky (first post,) at the top of the board, and if you're a regular user, you don't necessarily read stickies on a daily basis as they rarely change?

Maybe de-sticky-fy and more clarity?

It's certainly lost on me, (maybe i'm thick?) :eek:

Biggles · 15 January 2017 at 9:49AM

fredandwilma wrote: »

I would say the feedback so far, speaks volumes?

Nothing is particularly clear?

Also, this thread is easy to "pass" as it's a sticky (first post,) at the top of the board, and if you're a regular user, you don't necessarily read stickies on a daily basis as they rarely change?

Maybe de-sticky-fy and more clarity?

It's certainly lost on me, (maybe i'm thick?) :eek:

Spot on.

What is the trial? Has it started yet? Where is it? Is it 'feedback' to tell you we don't know what on earth you're on about?

fredandwilma · 15 January 2017 at 11:07AM

Biggles wrote: »

Is it 'feedback' to tell you we don't know what on earth you're on about?

I think so.

I've followed the links but it's still as clear as mud?

Former_MSE_Andrea · 25 January 2017 at 3:03PM

Hi all

Thanks for your feedback, we're having a rethink about this so bear with us

Former_MSE_Andrea · 25 January 2017 at 3:04PM

SabNys wrote: »

I tried to find an old post by using "Search by Username" in Advanced Search. But no suggestions appeared in the dropdown. After several failed attempts, I tried changing the initial letter to upper case. That worked. So the username search is case-sensitive.

In every forum that I use (for example, Evernote, TenForums), username searches are not case-sensitive.

As an experiment, I did separate keyword searches for "drawdown" and "Drawdown". I got the same number of search results. So keyword searches are not case-sensitive.

I would be grateful for the reason why usernames are case-sensitive.

Thanks.

Hi, the software we use for the Forum (Vbulletin) is case sensitive.

Biggles · 12 February 2017 at 1:01PM

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi, the software we use for the Forum (Vbulletin) is case sensitive.

That seems pretty unusual to me, too; I would normally just put in the characters all in lower case.

Is it possible to incorporate a prompt into the search box to say that it's case-sensitive to avoid wasting peoples' time?

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