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