Is the voting working properly?

[netactivist]

What caught my eye is, podcasts that usually get a handful of votes in an entire month, now have hundreds of votes in four days.

That could happen, of course, if a podcast with a large audience starts asking its audience to vote.

But those hundreds of votes would be accompanied by at least a couple of comments. But there are zero comments accompanying the hundreds of votes.

Just seems odd. There are other strange vote totals as well, involving oddly low comment numbers accompanying suddenly huge vote totals.

As well as a podcast jumping up 60 votes in 10 minutes just now, when its last episode was a week ago.

Are all these technical glitches left over from the last few days when Podcast Alley was down?

Or maybe the usual voting patterns don't hold any more?

Just wondering...

[dpeach]

I noticed that I could vote for a podcast more than once. I usually submit three votes for my podcast each month for my wife, our son and myself (I feel that is justified). But this month I could do all three from one login. So, yes, something is wrong.

I contained myself and have not voted more than I should, though, it makes it hard for me to vote for others. I subscribe to more than 60 podcasts. I usually just vote throughout the month as I think about them. And, the voting process tells me if I have or have not voted for them yet this month. If this stays broken all month, I won't have any idea whether I have already submitted a vote yet. And all the numbers will be off.

Though it is not right for a podcast to have hundreds of votes (unless it normally does), it also would not be right to fix it and reset everyone's votes to zero. I have to twist the arm of my family and close friends to get the 15 votes per month that I normally get. Several have already voted this month, I don't want to make them do it again.

It just may have to be one of those months that we accept a skewed process. That is, unless the staff can somehow throw out multiple votes.

[WyethDigital]

Yes, voting is screwed up, and people are probably voting for their shows like crazy.

I also know that there is a concerted effort by some of the Harry Poitter podcasts to get enough votes to round out the Top 10 in each category, whether they should be in that category or not. Already got one scrapped from Video Podcasts (they didn't have a single video show).

If you want something done about this, you should be posting in the PodcastAlley Help forum, and not this one, okay?

Eric

[netactivist]

Thanks, Eric, for that suggestion.

I posted this in the help section:
http://mmcxii.podcastalley.com/forum/showthread.php?p=612138#post612138

[WyethDigital]

No problem. The voting structure is a little fractured around here on a good day, but at least it essentially works. Hate to see it degraded so far as to be completely useless.

Eric