Posted on 10/30/2004 12:33:26 AM PDT by John Robinson
I've installed new polling software. Please let me know if you find bugs or have questions. Thank you.
Thanks, John!
You give us the total, member votes and non-member votes. I see that the present poll has more non-members voting than members.
Of course you do understand this is NOT a randomly selected poll conducted according to accepted polling criteria? We're not pretending to make an accurate portrait of the universe of the American public at large. That caveat being borne in mind, your new polling software may well serve the purposes for which you have created them.
I need to add something along the lines of "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane." [From: Slashdot Poll disclaimer]
Thanks for everything, I like the poll feature, seems to be bug-free for me.
I do like to see the separation of members and non-members plus the total, its pretty cool. I guess I didn't realize we were outnumbered by lurkers.
I was about to take credit =o)
In another 15 - 20 years you will have the perfect forum software.
We have many Bush supporting lurkers. For that matter, we probably have a measurable number of Kerry supporting lurkers (longterm variety.) But the inflated Kerry numbers are because our little poll was featured on DU. That might have given us upward 2,000 DU votes. I feel so dirty.
But we'll just have to think something and it will become posted.
aaahhhh. Makes sense. I still like the new features.
LOL! If that soon. But I try.
In fact, I'm working on a big change to the forum. Cleaner and easier to use. Probably won't see it until next year, but I'll open up a beta test site (well, a preview site) as soon as the programming is more stable.
Bump fer later.
Thanks
YOUR NEW SOFTWARE JUST DESTROYED MY COMPUTER!
Just send me $1599 and we'll call it even.
Ha! Don't forget, my new software hacked into your computer-- I know what you're running. I'll send you a buck ninety five and we'll call it even.
And I'm happy to report I am in the majority.
Best Regards,
BJN
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