I’ve noticed a couple of weird things that happen sometimes when answering polls, and I just experienced both of them within about 5 minutes.
When I answered the “sandwich” multiple-choice poll, I checked several types. After voting, I noticed that only one of my choices was italicized, and that option had zero votes!
In the “Tootsie Pop vs Blow Pop” poll, when the page refreshed after I voted, there were no results showing. I had to go to “see results” which only showed the results but not the thread.
I’ve seen this kind of thing happen before, but I’m finally het up about it enough to inquire. What’s the deal? Is it something about the way the poll is written? Is it one of those wacky things that happens for no discernible reason? Is it just me?
Please relieve my curiosity before I go INSANE(r)!
Me, too. I’ve tried voting again, to see if that trips whatever flag needs to be tripped, but it won’t let you do that. For that particular poll, I am stuck having to click the results link, where my choices may or may not be italicized.
Well, since there is no official answer, I’ll make a guess: it’s like everything else–if there is a high load on the server at the time, certain less than essential processes don’t get performed until later. And that, sometimes, the log of what to do later gets reset (which would definitely happen after a reboot, for instance.)