NEWBIES: FINALLY LEARNING NOT TO VOTE ON ANCIENT POLLS!?!

[Sir NoddinOff]

Today there were a half a dozen of those old polls resurrected by our official forum troll (Sunday always seems the worst). I was happy to see the newbies were not voting on the polls and also not replying to the polls... as a result the old polls seem to be quickly sliding down/off the first page and into obscurity. Of course it only takes one newbie to vote and back it pops to the top. DO YOU THINK WE'VE FINALLY GOTTEN THRU TO THE NEWBIES ABOUT THIS NOXIOUS PRANK:?:

READ THE DATES FOLKS... ALWAYS READ THE DATES BEFORE YOU POLL

[chunkyfrog]

You have to be registered and signed in to vote; you can only vote once per poll.
Somebody (a member) is dredging up very old polls--hooray for the newbies who do not take the bait.

[Sir NoddinOff]

You have to be registered and signed in to vote; you can only vote once per poll.
Somebody (a member) is dredging up very old polls--hooray for the newbies who do not take the bait.

That's why I just used the generic term 'newbies'. You are correct about 'guests' who aren't registered. BTW, CF... didn't you (or was it RobySue) figure out who the person was that is doing this? I remember going to their member page and reading some of their posts. Pretty weird stuff. Plus they never denied dredging up the ancient polls, as I recall.

[chunkyfrog]

Still no proof; but the mental disarray is consistent with my suspicions.

[Sir NoddinOff]

Still no proof; but the mental disarray is consistent with my suspicions.

Come on, CF... give us the names and no one will get hurt. I've got some pitchforks, burning torches and a a bucket of hot tar, plus a bag of feathers ready in my back yard. Just kiddin'. This twisted person is too sad to persecute... it's like hitting a puppy that just peed on the floor... although there is a LOT OF PEE on the floor lately. About ankle deep, I'd guess

[Stormynights]

Still no proof; but the mental disarray is consistent with my suspicions.

I am nosey. Who do you suspect?

[xyz]

> You have to be registered and signed in to vote;
> you can only vote once per poll.

I didn't know that. Makes sense, I just never thought about it. Those are good policies.

It would take so little effort from cpap.com to fix this problem.

All they would have to do is "create a post" by the voter, adding the name of the voter with one word in the body of the post: "voted".

[chunkyfrog]

There was one person, then another, now I'm not sure enough to "out" anyone in particular.
The individuals under my radar have been around for quite some time.
I suspect a conspiracy; or one person with access to multiple URL's.

[nanwilson]

The only problem with us complaining about the old polls is that this guy gets his jollies by getting the attention and bugging the "P" out of us. We want the newbies to not respond, but if we keep complaining we are giving this guy the attention he wants
"No one" respond to a poll and if "we all" stop commenting, this guy will slide off the page into a nice muddy puddle.

[Sir NoddinOff]

It would take so little effort from cpap.com to fix this problem. All they would have to do is "create a post" by the voter, adding the name of the voter with one word in the body of the post: "voted".

Probably not that easy. The free source for this forum has been around for a number of years ( https://www.phpbb.com/) and essentially 'comes in a box, ie. ready to run'. It's generally not easy or advisable for non-expert programmers to get under the hood and tinker, plus I suspect not cheap either. Maybe this is part of the reason the Goodmans (our generous hosts) leave us mostly to our own devices I'm not a programming expert but maybe somebody else who is an expert could possibly wade into this issue of forum design, especially adding restrictions.

[Sir NoddinOff]

We want the newbies to not respond, but if we keep complaining we are giving this guy the attention he wants "No one" respond to a poll and if "we all" stop commenting, this guy will slide off the page into a nice muddy puddle.

The way I see it Nan is like this: We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. The horns of a dilemma, if you'll pardon me running several crusty cliches into the ground.... whoops, there was another one

[Sludge]

Removing old posts from view is easily accomplished by this workaround:

In an attempt to get two birds stoned (bringing an "old" thread to the top, and an option not to view them):

First, don't "Reply" to them. While voting in a poll and replying to the thread will both bring a thread to the top, the thread behaves differently.

Second, change the settings in User Control Panel > Board Preferences > Edit Display Options > Display Topics from Previous Days > (select) One Day (or 7 will probably work, depending on when the last response was).

Alternatively, the Display can be changed for each session (sign-on) by making these changes at the bottom of the first page.

[Denial Dave]

I agree with nan. Complaining about it is giving the person attention. I suggest we ignore the revised polls .

[Sludge]

[ems]

Still no proof; but the mental disarray is consistent with my suspicions.

Yup... he is so transparent. He'll give up soon.