Mefi Projects: I know it's beta but I'm still unable to vote.

November 18, 2005 11:08 AM

Mefi Projects: I know it's beta but I'm still unable to vote. This makes me sad.
posted by panoptican to Bugs at 11:08 AM (15 comments total)

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posted by quonsar at 11:15 AM on November 18, 2005

are you now or were you ever convicted of a felony?

I'll work on it now. It does a check for your userID and password before letting you vote. It worked in my tests with a few user accounts so I deployed it as good. I probably messed some small thing up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:54 AM on November 18, 2005

While we're here, a feature request: it would be neat if items that had been subsequently FPPed on the Blue were modified to link to the FPP, show who posted it, etc. That way the person who put in on Projects would know of their success.

Maybe that could be done by the person who took to the the Blue, so that the admins didn't have to watch for it?
posted by selfnoise at 11:59 AM on November 18, 2005

are you now or were you ever convicted of a felony?

That's a good point. Anyway, thanks for working on it. I know we felons shouldn't be allowed to vote so it's awfully nice of you to try to open up some loophole.
posted by panoptican at 12:06 PM on November 18, 2005

selfnoise, I could have a "post this to metafilter" button to track all that, once submitted. It'd also drive the point of projects home, that the good stuff should float up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:14 PM on November 18, 2005

That'd work. Be nice if you could also use the button after the fact.
posted by selfnoise at 12:18 PM on November 18, 2005

felons can vote in Vermont. I can vote on MeFi Projects.
posted by jessamyn at 12:51 PM on November 18, 2005

It should work now. panoptican, I hope you don't mind but I logged in as you and voted for the smoking investment thing as a test to make sure it worked.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:15 PM on November 18, 2005

VOTER FRAUD! DEMAND A PAPER TRAIL!
posted by quonsar at 2:18 PM on November 18, 2005

ITS NOT VOTER FRAUD! IT'S ELECTION FRAUD!
posted by If I Had An Anus at 2:28 PM on November 18, 2005

I could have a "post this to metafilter" button

Of course, to fully integrate this information management solution with the current functionality of the blue, we'll also need a "double-post this to Metafilter" button.
posted by cortex at 2:31 PM on November 18, 2005

Awesome. Thanks Matt. And in actuality, I logged in as mathowie and posted that comment. So no voter/election fraud. Just wanted to clear that up.
posted by panoptican at 2:38 PM on November 18, 2005

Thanks, Matt! It does work.
posted by Uncle Glendinning at 3:04 PM on November 18, 2005

This web-app nerd wants to know: what was wrong? All users with a 2 in their uid couldn't vote?
posted by Plutor at 3:28 PM on November 18, 2005

I don't know what it was, the sql statement worked on the db server, but not in the code. I moved one variable check out to a new variable and fed it back into sql, and it worked for all. But it should have worked before.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:49 PM on November 18, 2005