auto delete ended giveaways

[John]

I am tired of going to the giveaway section and clicking on threads only to realize the giveaway ended a month ago but is still not locked or marked as closed. When you put in the giveaway end date, you should make it so the thread is deleted automatically three days after.

EDIT: come on guys

 

[Justis]

I can see this potentially being a problem if the author fails to announce the giveaway winner before their thread is automatically locked from them, but I do agree the giveaway section needs some custom development done to make it less of a mess. Worth thinking about.
This is severely eclipsed by larger priorities at the moment, but absolutely something for looking into later.

 

[pace]

I can see this potentially being a problem if the author fails to announce the giveaway winner before their thread is automatically locked from them, but I do agree the giveaway section needs some custom development done to make it less of a mess. Worth thinking about.
This is severely eclipsed by larger priorities at the moment, but absolutely something for looking into later.

Maybe adding a countdown? the guy who is hosting the giveaway could delay it if something came up?


Or maybe having a new custom giveaway system which is when the guy submits a giveaway it opens a thread which then people join the giveaway by clicking Enter Giveaway which then the host of the giveaway can delay the giveaway if he had to, but once the giveaway date ends the system adds the winner and the guy who did the giveaway into a conversation which then he pays him through the conversation although this might lead to a new way to scam which falsify the conversation which is then the giveaway host is alerted of the person who won the giveaway and the person who won the giveaway is as well to prevent scams

The giveaway thread automaticl delete's when the giveaway date ends

Also this system chooses the person who won to make it not rigged not the person who made it.

 

[Mick]

I can see this potentially being a problem if the author fails to announce the giveaway winner before their thread is automatically locked from them, but I do agree the giveaway section needs some custom development done to make it less of a mess. Worth thinking about.
This is severely eclipsed by larger priorities at the moment, but absolutely something for looking into later.

I agree.

Updating the giveaways forum is something I would like to do, but at the moment we have a whole bunch of stuff that's still a higher priority to do first. When we do eventually improve the giveaways forum, I would like to do something like this though.

I'll move this to pending for me to look into in a few months time once our development backlog is down a bit and we're free to plan new stuff to get developed for the site. Thanks for the suggestion.