Well said that man:)
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Well said that man:)
Yorkie,
You have made a few good points there, and I am sorry if you feel I was deliberately stepping on peoples toes, that was not my intention at all. In fact that never crossed my mind.
I understand that running YDC can be time consuming, but I am guessing from your post that this suggestion would then be up to babs to keep up to date.
This was not my intention either.
This suggestion was simply to get others views purely on a positive note for YDC'ers and eBid. The idea came to me after reading an announcement elsewhere when they stated that they had raised xxx for charity in the last 10 years.
In all fairness I myself think that it would be a great idea in that we can all see how much has been raised at a glance in all the YDC's. Admitted I have the squidoo lens which does do the same job, the amounts raised are 'lost' in amongst the blurb for the appropriate month.
It would not be a problem for me to do a tally thread - when I was doing the research for the lens, in joint agreement with Shezz back in January, I also did a tally sheet going back to 2005 / 6, so it would just a case of copy pasting the totals into a third area.
I have also added onto the tally sheet the amounts that the christmas quilt squares have raised before they even get made into a quilt and gets auctioned in Dec.
Ayup lass,
I never for a minute thought that you were deliberately stepping on anyones toes lass. I just felt that I should raise the points that I did because I didn't want to see Babs snowed under with idea's about the YDC before the lass has had chance to find her feet.
Some of the other points I raised were just to make folk realise that there can be a lot more to running the YDC other than simply posting announcements and okaying auctions, some folk new to the YDC may not realise that.
Sorry but I so agree with everything that Frank says, I am with babs all the way and appreciate everything she is doing and has done for the YDC I will always be there if she needs me at all,
I am so upset that the YDC has been taken out of the KT, but can understand why, IMO it was getting out of hand with all these threads being started by different people, while it was in the kt people would become aware of it, but how many will actually look here
As i have always said, you only needed a thread to annouce the YDC The pimp thread, (i would lock the annoucment thread so it dropped when i put the pimp thread up) then the tally thread, this was tolerable to others
btw i'm not having a go at anyone
Yeah I was disappointed when I saw that the YDC had been taken out of the KT, but I'm sure we'll find ways to "mention" it in the KT during YDC weeks. ;)
You only have to look at the viewing figures in this section to see that it only gets a fraction of the viewers that the KT gets. :(
In the beginning Gazza and Mark gave us permission to promote and discuss the YDC in the KT and allowed us to pimp our YDC auctions in the KT (rather than in the proper forum) as long as we kept it to one thread at a time on the first page, I think we abused that slightly. lol. It probably didn't help with me harping on about my challenge walk in the KT either, I should have known better than that really. :o But I am excited about the walk and really want to raise the maximum amount that I can for the NSPCC because it is something that I feel is very important, so I let my enthusiasm(sp?) run away with me. :o
No running, just walk :D