The giffgaff new years honours thread should be an annual event
but should be expanded into catogories
so all the fabulous work can be recognised
these can be chosen by the community for the community
ie contributor or members technical improvement
facebook twitter off topic
there is many options
but it would be a nice way for giffgaff to say thank you
original idea
Status: Implemented
This was implemented along with our GAFFTAs - let's run it again if people enjoyed it?
this was implemented and ran once but this year we only had the gaffta awards
i think we should have it again what do you think ?
its a member run event so if you want it again speak out
Just a quick and simple one!
Currently when on your 'my giffgaff' page along with other stuff you have a message reel there telling you about activations, purchases, sim orders ect....
For some reason this only shows your last 5 messages, with no way to go back and look at older ones, so my suggestion is simply let us scroll back through any msg's we've had on there.
This will be especially helpful due to GG no longer sending out emails notifying us of orders when we get a banner hit anymore but these msg's are displayed on the msg reel I'm talking about so feel it would be beneficial to be able to see all msg's and not just the last 5.
Well that's it short and sweet but to the point so I hope you agree? If so please show your support and as always your comments or criticism is welcome......
Thanks for reading
Just a very quick but simple one.
At the moment when you comment on or kudo an idea you get a pm telling you of any changes to the status of the idea or any update, which is great right?
But on your own ideas you do not currently get this notification as I assume cuz it's your idea then you should be keeping an eye in it but when your running quite a few active threads, helping out and getting involved in other threads and have a few ideas running is easy to lose track.
I know one should subscribe to threads your taking part in but if you've made this mistake you'll know your email inbox becomes chaos!
So my idea is simple!
Can we please get this pm notification to any changes on our own ideas please?
Thanks for reading.....
Hi
The observant among us will have noticed that the "Posted from..." that appeared at the bottom of a post made from a mobile device has now disappeared.
The not-so-observant will have missed it 
This is actually quite annoying - and restrictive to the helper - when people had problems before and you could see if the message was posted from an iPhone or an Android etc it was much easier to suggest the solution in some cases. Now we have no idea what device unless they mention in the OP (which they rarely do!)- a real pain 
And the dreaded multiple c&p settings for every phone under the sun have reappeared as a result 
As an additional observation, I've also noticed that against my username and avatar on the full site, I had enabled my mobile phone info to be displayed on the forums by going to preferences>personal information >mobile phone and typing in LG Nexus 5 32gb -...
That's also disappeared - despite still being current in my preferences??
My suggestion is simply this :
Bring both back.... Please
All the discussion about FB on the contribute forum has crystallised something that has been nagging at me for a while.
One of the most common issues we get on FB is people who have forgotten password details but can't get a reset email (never arrives). A while back I created a "Forum Account" guide and we tend to advise creating one, and using it to contact the agents from.
Of course that only helps the people who find their way into the FB wall. Can't help but think that some people give up and leave.
Wouldn't it make sense to recognise this issue, and to include a new section on the password reset page along the lines of :
"No reset email received? If its not in your junk folder then there may be a problem with the email address held on our system. Please create a Forum Account and contact our agents who will help you to get back up and running"
Could then add a link to a suitable knowledge base article (to replace my humble top tips guide) showing them how to do so, and what information to provide the agents with.
Should head off a lot of queries and make it easier for people to access their accounts / buy goodybags.
What do we think?
Cheers
Phil
I've been thinking about the free gg-gg allowances that you get when you top up or buy a new goodybag via card.
At the moment you get 3 months free calls, texts and video calls for a minimum of a £10 voucher top up or by buying a £5 goodybag or gigabag via card, great right?
I've got this idea about getting 6 months free gg-gg allowances if you take your payback as credit :
It's been very popular and receives that much support that GG are looking into implementing it so it got me thinking of this idea.
How about the amount of time you get your free allowances be dependant on how much you top up?
For example :
£10-3 months free gg-gg allowances
£20-4 months '' '' ''
£30-5 months '' '' ''
And so on if you see what I mean?
Or they could just have a certain amount like if you top up over £50 or even £100 it gets you 6 months or even 12 months.
These figures are just an example to show what i mean for the purpose of the idea. Obviously it would be up to gg to set the rates if they liked the idea.
Benefits for members - more free allowances
Benefits for giffgaff - guaranteed income for up to a year if offered like the £100 deal
Or if they are going to implement my idea about payback taken as credit maybe, if this is popular, they could include this at the same time.
Well thanks for reading and now it's over to you to have your say and if you like it then please show your support .
On the full desktop site, when you give a post kudos, the kudos button changes colour and gives a little tick symbol.
This means that people who are colour blind can see if they have given a post kudos or not.
However this is currently not the case on the mobile site. At the moment, it changes from black to grey.
Approximately 8% men and 0.5% women are affected by red-green colour blindness.
My idea is that we add a tick to the kudos button on the mobile site. This would help to make the mobile more accessible, as well making it more obvious to all members where they have awarded kudos.
I would imagine this is relatively easy to implement? But I may be wrong.
Thanks
I live in Wales and we've been subject to the 5p charge for carrier bags for a few years now, I understand that you Englanders are soon to join us in this environmental minefield. I have a suggestion for a campaign for giffgaff to sell bags for life for a couple of reasons.
What is a carrier bag?
It might be a simple question but the answer has hidden answers. The primary purpose is of course to carry things around but when you buy something from Tesco or Asda you're also exclaiming to the world that you shop at Tesco or Asda, kind of pledging alegiance and advertising on their behalf as you go about your Earthly chores. I feel that if we must advertise as part of our daily shopping commute then we might as well advertise something that we want to promote.
The eco drive for reusable and charging for carrier bags has afforded us an excellent opportunity to escape from these clutches and not only do our part for the environment by reducing plastic waste but also, if we so wish, break free of our corporate sponsored walk around town and promote values that we would like to promote ourselves (I urge you to do so even if you don't support this idea incidentally).
I don't have any ideas on the design of the bag itself but I'd think it could be branded giffgaff in some way and emphasise the core values of the company in a nice graphical way.
How?
There is now an online buying portal on te site here that sells phones and there has long been a demand for giffgaff branded merchandise, offering this as a limited run of exclusives seems to me like the best option. I've taken the liberty of seeking out a few bag makers. Most products of this nature are manufactured overseas (China) and of course we'd all like to avoid that and have these made in the UK. BIDBI are based in Sheffield and seem to have a UK based production line but others are of course in existence in the country I'm sure.
http://www.customprintedbags.co.uk/kraft-paper-bag
The design could be one of those community competition type things or maybe just hire someone or get the in house design guy. Up to whomever
Benefits and causes
There is the opportunity to make some sort of charity thing out of this but in my mind at least environmental responsibility is reward enough and there's the branding thing too. Can go under the giffgaff for good banner or something. An expanded info-sheet on the worth of reusing carrier bags and promoting things that you like raises the good cause factor. Alo an opprtunity for some giffgaff advertising in the physical world, something that has so far been extraordinarily challenging.
Cost
Money, GB £££. Cost will depend on the amount of bags and I've seen that a limited order of 500 is needed by some manufacturers. I'd hazard a guess and say that the cost will be less than the typical bag for life at under £3 per unit depending on the quality and materials; so I'd estimate the upfront cost to be in the range of £10,000 which will be recouped with the sale of the bags.
Bonus round
I have a slogan to help advertise these too. "Pledge allegience to the bag"
Some of you may have already seen my idea I posted a couple of days ago about changing the dates of the kudo to when it was actually awarded rather than the date the op was made in the daily digest email, but in case you missed it here it is :
Now as a result of that idea thanks to @endorphin I've already added that the actual email is a bit jumbled up and that maybe it'd be better if a blank line or something be inserted inbetween each link.
Now the way I understand it is your meant to stick to one suggestion per idea so here I am again!
The problem is there is no way of looking anywhere to see all your 'Best Answers' listed like you can check your kudo, posts, board replies and just about everything else!
Now I know a work around was made by another member but it was quite technical so for people like myself, who are not that tech savvy, we still can't check unless you want to go through thousands of old posts! The amount of times my b/a count has gone up in my profile but I don't know which post it was awarded is really frustrating!
So a simple solution to this is in the daily digest emails, as well as telling us about Kudos we've received, that any new 'Best Answers' be included as well!
Well that's my suggestion so it's over to you folks?
