Here's the thread to start off the discussion.

To remind everyone, entries can be made by going to Gallery>Competitions and selecting the Enter Competition button.

Yes, too late once the poll is up and running. I've just had a look and there's no editing option.

There's no hassle Gwyn, but it does need to be right so people can join in freely and enjoy it, not just a handful of people.

It takes a while for people to notice, think about things and get to a point where they have some thoughts about it.

Discussion moved.

My concern is that there is a danger of creating a clique of members who, unintentionally, exclude quite a few people, especially new members. We have already been accused of this even when competitions are obvious and open to all. This one at the moment is closed and concealed and any newcomer to the forum could easily miss it altogether. What will they think when a mass of entries appears all at once, except that they weren't invited in?

I would suggest that the mechanism for this is clumsy at best, but we should see the entries as they appear so that we all know something is happening. This could be achieved in one thread at first. The voting thread could be the one with the poll and after voting the point at which discussion is taken. Two threads like the Fortnightly competition?

Later there may be a more automatic option if the idea proves to be a winner.

You will only see the poll results if you voted.

I'll be honest with you, not keen on that idea. Who is going to send an internet competition entry into a black hole for three weeks without seeing something happening?

However, I guess we will see what happens.

Where is the first entry?

It's up to the eBay seller to do their own marketing. If we had a pointer on this forum to anything and everything that was of interest being offered elsewhere, the result would be a huge amount of forum noise.

From time to time something extraordinary comes up. So it may be fair enough to point it out and someone who really wants it might be very grateful. On the other hand, it just might create more competition for an item and put the price up for everyone.

In general, my opinion is that it's best left alone and leave those who are looking for bargains to look unfettered.

Fine for me here, so must be the intermediate servers, wherever they are.