This week’s question
How many trick or treaters will I get this Halloween on Saturday?
Pick your answer from the following:
Current Standings:
How the Votes Have Been Cast
Discussion on Current Vote:
You've found the EastBayRag vote page. Here, you get the opportunity to let us know what you think. Each week, we will have votes on important issues. Well, probably not important issues, more like trivial things that come to mind on a Sunday morning after a belly full of beer from a Saturday night.
This week's current vote is shown above. After the votes are in, EBR will provide in depth analysis of the results so you can find out if you are running with the crowd or if you're out there on your own. You never know, you may even learn something, but that's highly unlikely. Analysis of last week's vote is shown below. If you want to see historic votes, checkout the vote archives.
Oh! And the cool thing before I forget, the graphs update as you vote ...... Wow! And what's more, the colors are allocated randomly, so each time you refresh the page, you will see different colors on the graphs. (F5 is normally the shortcut key to refresh, but may depend on your browser.) Go on .... try it.
Analysis of Last Week's Vote
The following question was presented:
What did you think when you voted last week?
Results:
Ooh, that's new was the clear winner with 56% of the votes selected from the following:
- Ooh, that's new (56%)
- Why has he changed that? (11%)
- Didn't vote last week (11%)
- Didn't notice a difference (22%)
Analysis:
Yes indeed, I have been tinkering with the old website again. When you vote you are now taken to the vote page. So, if you really want to know, I've updated the post pages to redirect to another page. This prevents double posting if someone hits the back button as the back button won't take you anywhere after posting something (a vote or a comment as examples). I thought that when you posted a vote, the most natural page to send you to would be the vote page then you can see how others have voted. I then realized that most people would be voting from the email and that if you went to the vote page after voting, you'd have no way of knowing that your vote had registered - you'd just open the vote page and the most logical thing to think would be that you now needed to vote. If you did, you'd have got the error message that a vote had already been registered from your IP address. Anyway, I realized this very close to when the vote was going to go out and my quick solution was to create a pop up when you are redirected to the vote page. The popup itself doesn't actually mean you've voted, just that the redirect is telling it to display that popup. Seems to work though.