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Topic	So after doing the POTD for twelve years, I finally got the first vote.
ParanoidObsessive 12/21/17 11:10:28 PM #6:	Rayneworks posted... Either way it's the first time I've ever seen just one vote on the results page, which chance-wise is still the same. Yeah, but the point is, probably at least a dozen or so other people (if not more) ALSO only saw one vote on the results page. Basically, the results page accurately reflects YOUR vote, but it doesn't accurately reflect the sum total of all potential votes it has received since the poll started. Again, there's a more complicated technical explanation for how it works, but I forget exactly what it was. But it means that, in spite of the fact that you THINK you were the first vote (and you may have been), you may also NOT have been. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:892663818] in So after d... [t:76124501]...</cite> <quote><cite>Rayneworks posted...</cite> <quote>Either way it's the first time I've ever seen just one vote on the results page, which chance-wise is still the same.</quote> Yeah, but the point is, probably at least a dozen or so other people (if not more) ALSO only saw one vote on the results page. Basically, the results page accurately reflects YOUR vote, but it doesn't accurately reflect the sum total of all potential votes it has received since the poll started. Again, there's a more complicated technical explanation for how it works, but I forget exactly what it was. But it means that, in spite of the fact that you THINK you were the first vote (and you may have been), you may also NOT have been. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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