Has anyone else noticed a change in the way the voting box operates. Until recently, if I had not yet logged in, the box would say "Login" (or "Voted" if I had previously done so). Clicking on "Login" never worked because it took me off to an error message page, but I could get to the login place and back to vote quite easily.
Recently, the box always seems to say "Vote", and appears to accept my vote (ie. the number increments and the box says "Voted") even if I am not logged in. But, the vote doesn't stay if I refresh the page, which is the correct action since it shouldn't have accepted it in the first place.
But now it is much harder to go to the login place, log myself in, and get back and enter a proper vote because when I get back to the end of the story, the vote box has totally disappeared and the system wants me to add a comment rather than vote. Is this a problem that anyone else has encountered, or is it just me doing something stupid or not doing something right? Thanks.
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Now you come to mention it
um, no.
Angharad
Angharad
Changes in the voting box
Non-logged in users can now vote. I did that because the login linked worked for almost no one and caused a lot of frustration. But as to why your login box disappears completely, I don't know. It sounds like a browser problem.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I too...
I too have witness the disappearing 'vote' box, but then it reappeared for me. I have not been able to discern when or under what circumstances it disappears.
Aimee Michelle
MSIE and the voting box
Some browsers, in particular, versions of MSIE and Netscape have been known to put the voting box on a bus to Tucumcari with nothing but a lollipop and a change of underwear in a paper bag. If this is your problem, there's not a lot I can do about it. Sorry.
Sometimes, reloading the page solves the problem, sometimes it doesn't. The voting box is written in Javascript with a fallback HTML version if javascript is off. This confuses the heck out of some older browsers. The code is as dense as a politician's hide and I'm not going to try to hack it. Again, sorry.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Could be local buffering
Could be also local i.e. user PC buffering of a page or components of a page. I think I just had something of this sort when the vote count incremented by 12 after having a page open for less than a minute.