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There appears to have been a problem with the update of the Poll. Some made comments before the Poll appeared on the front pages - or so it seems. How they accessed it I do not know. The Poll released at the programmed time but comments that had already been made seem to have been lost. I am investigating the cause.
My apologies to anyone who had already made a comment. All I can do is ask that you make your comments again. We have not seen the problem before so if anyone can provide additional information that might help in identifying the cause it would be most useful. Did you access the Poll via the front page? If not, can you explain how you did access it please? Which browser are you using? Did anything appear 'different' to when you usually access the site?
[Addendum: The poll displayed on my front page has reverted to the previous poll again. If anyone else has seen the same please confirm in a reply to this Meta.] After a minute or so it returned to displaying the correct Poll.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday April 05 2025, @04:55PM
Well, since Poll Booth is accessible directly by link such as
https://soylentnews.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=202 [soylentnews.org]
then it is trivial to craft a local autorefreshing page (meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”9" for example) expecting a future next poll by predictable number, so the booth becomes available to that page when it is created, even before it is published on main page. Or wget/curl/python script.
You should check the logs for booth hammering.
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