Ready the polygraph! (Keep All Your Promises reviews)

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Re: Ready the polygraph! (Keep All Your Promises reviews)

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So there are three of you who claim to have voted for Ross. This concerns me, and I will run some test on the voting code to see if it is eating votes somehow. Thanks for speaking up.

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Yeah, I voted for him as well. But of course!
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Yeah, and I only got one vote too. I'm sure something is amiss. ;)
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Manhattan Glutton wrote: I call shenanigans.
I do too. I know that at least I voted for myself and we still got zero votes! ;)
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In addition to voting for Ross, I also voted for Bingy Swirly and Suckweasel, both of whom got zero votes. Were they BOTH late and my vote was struck?
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Questions as I try debug a possible problem.

1. How many of you are lying, or possibly mistaken?
2. Of the rest of you, when did you vote? I mean was it early (first 24 hours), middle, or late (last 24 hours)?

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I definitely voted for Ross. Probably in approximately the last 24 hours. No more than an hour after posting my reviews in this thread, anyway.
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Spud wrote:Questions as I try debug a possible problem.

1. How many of you are lying, or possibly mistaken?
2. Of the rest of you, when did you vote? I mean was it early (first 24 hours), middle, or late (last 24 hours)?

Thanks, SPUD
No actual votes from me this week, just smart ass comments. ;)
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I voted late - the night before the deadline.
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I voted in the middle somewhere, shortly after posting my reviews. I also voted for Barton Stink, Cthonic Youth, State Shirt, Mr Mann, myself and Lucky Spoon at the same time.
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I voted for Ross, and maybe half of the others, an hour before deadline. Ain't lyin' either.
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I voted for Chthonic Youth and Jeff Robertson in the last 24 hours.
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I voted Wednesday night [EDIT: the 27th](Eastern time zone): definitely for Architects, myself, Jeff Robertson, and Torrentz, and probably for King Arthur, Ross, State Shirt, and Therman. I was working from my alphabetically ordered reviews, which I'd written several days earlier , and going down the check list for the randomly sorted titles, so I might be misremembering one or more of the probable votes.

[EDIT} No, wait -- I think I was up in the middle of the night, that is to say, the wee hours of either Wednesday or Thursday, when I voted. Much as I am now. "Old people, Jesus!" as LML put it.
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Regarding WTFBBS and their song. Well, they had me join after they submitted. I'll promptly be working with the boys on their mics/mic skills. Also, we'll be playing around with a couple of softwares not normally used for producing music, but the results I've gotten so far sound nice. Thanks for all of the constructive criticism, those of you who reviewed us. We'll definitely be taking it to heart, and hopefully, by our next submission, we shall be loads better. That, and you can't fail when you add a girl to the line up :P
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c.layne Awesome song! Welcome back! I hope we hear more from you sooner than in another 3+ years.
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I voted on the Tuesday right after submissions, which was before the dunce cap was put in place (hence why I voted for late entrants)

Also, I definitely voted unless my computer glitched. I'm a little OCD about checkboxes and submit buttons.
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OK, from what I am hearing, it sounds like this was probably human error. Mine, not yours. Votes that came in before the dunce caps were put on might have been lost in the shuffle of removing some songs from the voting ranks - I may have accidentally reset the votes. I also started to update the day before, and then realized I was a day early. Stupidly, I left the update interface up on my computer, effectively freezing the votes some 24 hours before the voting period ended. Dumb, I know, and when I update to the next fight, the votes from the previous fight are lost, so there is no retrieving them. The good news is that it appears to be all totally avoidable human errors, and not some code issues with the voting system.

I apologize for the inconvenience, especially to Ross.

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Spud wrote:Who's the dunce now?
So, if I understand correctly, this is all because some twits couldn't submit by the deadline, causing you to shine down pity upon them and, in the process of being graciously benevolent toward lesser beings, accidentally wipe out the votes?
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Something like that.
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sounds like a microcosm of corporate america.
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The Weakest Suit wrote:sounds like a microcosm of corporate america.
Yeah, but it does give one some insight into how much human effort goes into keep this site alive week after week...
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And we appreciate it, Spud!
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