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David Bailey
1st-October-2008, 08:22 PM
The way poll numbers are re-calculated seems to be wrong, it doesn't seem to adjust poll numbers when a vote is withdrawn, either in the "taken away" option or in a new voted-for option?

ducasi
1st-October-2008, 11:52 PM
Let's post a test poll and have a play around...

ducasi
1st-October-2008, 11:57 PM
Let's post a test poll and have a play around...
I've tried voting all different ways, and then withdrawing my vote, and it's never counted my votes wrong.

Only way I think things go wrong is if the poll is edited while someone is voting (or withdrawing their votes.)

martingold
2nd-October-2008, 08:34 AM
I noticed in a few polls recently that the numbers were one short of the amount of people who had voted

David Bailey
2nd-October-2008, 09:19 AM
I've tried voting all different ways, and then withdrawing my vote, and it's never counted my votes wrong.

Only way I think things go wrong is if the poll is edited while someone is voting (or withdrawing their votes.)

Ah, that may be it - I was adding a poll option as well, that'll teach me to multi-task...

Dreadful Scathe
2nd-October-2008, 09:39 AM
Ah, that may be it - I was adding a poll option as well, that'll teach me to multi-task...
i like the cartoon in the latest Private Eye showing gene kelly dancing round the lamppost in his mac "singing and dancing in the rain" with the (not verbatim) caption "proof positive that men CAN multitask under adverse conditions" :)