12/11/09: Vote TYT For Best Political Site @ Mashable! | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 hidden)
Question (none / 0)
So I just signed up for twitter, so that I could rock a triple play (commence congratulatory self back-patting), and it seems to have worked just fine.  But, alas, all might not be as it seems.  I have been voting for the best podcast award every day now with the same e-mail address, and have only received one verification e-mail from them (for today's vote).  Does this mean that my other votes were not counted, or is the one verification e-mail good for all of the votes?

by funkyspoon on 11/20/2009 03:12:10 PM EST

That's a problem (none / 0)

You should be getting a confirmation email (that you need to open to click the verify vote link) every single time you vote, within a minute or two.

I'm using Firefox as my browser along with Gmail and I haven't had any issues.

by Tom Hanc on 11/20/2009 04:26:35 PM EST

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I'm on Firefox as well (none / 0)
Firefox isn't giving me any trouble yet, however gmail is spotty.

by AaronWysocki on 11/20/2009 11:08:30 PM EST

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Problems with the Podcast Awards voting (none / 0)
I had an email exchange with Todd Cochrane in response to my complaint that I wasn't receiving the confirmation emails for two of my email accounts. I could not use either one to vote. Eventually, in one message he wrote the following:
1/8 of 1% of all submissions have not been validated...

Yesterday we saw 253,081 Votes. Of those votes only 288 were not validated. Of 250k emails going out a day and only ending up with 288 not validated I think were doing pretty good. The pure volume is going to cause some sites to mark us as spam.

While he notes the spam problem, the number of unvalidated votes that he reports is, at least to me, completely incredible, and I don't believe it. It is a two-step voting procedure, and a success rate of 99.89% would seem to be outrageously spectacular. I could be wrong, but I won't trust the results of the Podcast Awards vote unless its been audited by a trusted third party.

by EveningStarNM on 11/27/2009 10:47:35 AM EST

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DAMMIT! (none / 0)
I can't get this #$@%#! comment editor to format my comments right!  That damned "HTML Formatted" option doesn't often work! :(

This is the quote from that guy's emails:

##### BEGIN QUOTE #####
1/8 of 1% of all submissions have not been validated...

Yesterday we saw 253,081 Votes. Of those votes only 288 were not validated. Of 250k emails going out a day and only ending up with 288 not validated I think were doing pretty good. The pure volume is going to cause some sites to mark us as spam.
##### END QUOTE #####

The rest of that post is me.

by EveningStarNM on 11/27/2009 10:50:25 AM EST

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Excuse me but (none / 0)
I would prefer to use html BUT they lock down all the fun stuff...hint hint.

by Sock Puppet Fred on 12/05/2009 03:32:51 PM EST

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But SOME of it is s'posed to work! (none / 0)
BLOCKQUOTE is unpredictable.  It works sometimes and not others, and I used to use it all the time.

by EveningStarNM on 12/05/2009 03:39:35 PM EST

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No or Slow? Email Confirmation (none / 0)

I did receive email confirmations immediately until yesterday. I voted at approx. 7:30 a.m. Friday but still haven't received a confirmation email at 1:00 a.m.

I am figuring that regardless of when the email arrives, even if it is outside of a 24-hour time frame, we will be able to confirm the vote when it does arrive.  Maybe they are backed up.

by claire on 11/21/2009 12:58:30 AM EST

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The only other thing I can think of (none / 0)
is to remind everyone to click "listener" in the relevant field underneath where you enter your name and email address.

by Tom Hanc on 11/21/2009 01:28:00 PM EST

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12/11/09: Vote TYT For Best Political Site @ Mashable! | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 hidden)