What's Happening with the Polls?

[Timerover51]

Is there something weird going on with the opinion polls?

 

[Cryton]

Is there something weird going on with the opinion polls?

What do you mean by weird? Seem normal enough to me...which isn't saying much.

 

[McPerth]

Is there something weird going on with the opinion polls?

If you mean last post appearing with a date/hour not in concordance with the date/hour appearing on this same last post, that's because the date/hour given in the main page is actualized everytime anyone votes, regardless of he/she posts anything or not.

So, if you vote on a poll whose last post is from 2006 (to give you an example), on the main page it will appear as last post being on the day/hour of your vote, but if you look at it, you'll see the last post being done in 2006.

If you mean the many poll threads appearing on the "Lastest posts" listing, this is probably because someone(s) have been Reading them and voting on them, so activating what I said.

This aside, I see nothing weird on them. If that was not what you meant, please, specify what you were alluding to...

 

[Spinward Scout]

Well that kinda explains it...

 

[whulorigan]

Well that kinda explains it...

Except that this morning I seem to recall one of the poll-threads popped up as a "New Post" whose associated poll was "closed", and the last post to the thread itself was by Andrew Boulton . . .

(NOTE: The Poll in question is: [FONT=arial,helvetica] Far Traders[/FONT] )

 

[Timerover51]

If you mean last post appearing with a date/hour not in concordance with the date/hour appearing on this same last post, that's because the date/hour given in the main page is actualized everytime anyone votes, regardless of he/she posts anything or not.

So, if you vote on a poll whose last post is from 2006 (to give you an example), on the main page it will appear as last post being on the day/hour of your vote, but if you look at it, you'll see the last post being done in 2006.

If you mean the many poll threads appearing on the "Lastest posts" listing, this is probably because someone(s) have been Reading them and voting on them, so activating what I said.

This aside, I see nothing weird on them. If that was not what you meant, please, specify what you were alluding to...

My apologies for not being more specific. What I meant by "weird" was all of the polls that appear to have been started a few years ago showing up at once, and also that the date/time on the last post did not coincide with the date/time shown in the forum thread.

 

[aramis]

Someone's been necro-voting... going back to early polls, and voting in them.

Which isn't, per se, against the rules. It's odd, but not against the rules.

I've closed one because it was specifically for a project of Andrew Boulton's.

 

[Timerover51]

Someone's been necro-voting... going back to early polls, and voting in them.

Which isn't, per se, against the rules. It's odd, but not against the rules.

I've closed one because it was specifically for a project of Andrew Boulton's.

Thank you, I just was a bit puzzled by it.