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Subject: Re: Bug in the opinion poll?

Author: Steven Schwartz

Date: 12:19:51 11/04/98

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On November 04, 1998 at 14:33:09, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>On November 04, 1998 at 11:39:58, Tim Mirabile wrote:
>
>>On November 04, 1998 at 02:30:31, Frank Schneider wrote:
>>
>>>I just was able to vote multiple votes in the opinion poll like this:
>>>
>>>First I answered only the first question and submitted it.
>>>
>>>Then I got a page where I could answer questions #2 and #3 and only read
>>>the result of #1. I submitted that page as well and got a page where I
>>>could answer #1 again.
>>
>>Hmm.  I tried this and it did not happen for me.  You could try hitting reload
>>to make sure it is not pulling the page from cache.  If you actually did vote a
>>second time, it should be rejected.  This is necessary because it's easy to try
>>to vote twice by just submitting the vote and then immediately hitting the
>>"back" button.
>
>I would guess that there is some sort of problem, since 4 more votes have been
>registered for question 3 than for question 1. If it were the other way around,
>perhaps people only answered one question and left, but this way it looks as if
>some votes on question 1 didn't register. Most likely a plot by Chessbase, of
>course. ;-)
>kp

I think the poll is working fine. My take on the reason that question
#3 has a larger turn-out is because we have lots of new members signing
up daily on CCC, and they can better respond to a question like #3.
Once they have been around for a while, question #1 is easier to
respond to.

In fact, I believe that Frank's post suggested that he thought he was
able to vote on question #1 twice. If that were so, then question #1
would have the higher count.

It is not all unusual for a different number of people to be voting
on questions in the same poll.

We do not play favorites with Chessbase. We are an equal-opportunity
pollster; the highest bidder gets the most votes:-))))
- Steve



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