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Why did the voting end hours sooner than it supposed to?
HappyLee wrote:
It says: "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026."
Right now it's 19:26 UTC on January 15th, 2026.
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23:59 UTC on January 15th is probably a typo since some time ago. Polls were created when I woke up on Jan7 and were all set to automatically end in 7 days, as always.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
The link in your post is posted in 2021/2022, not 2025/2026.
No, I, myself, didn't miss voting, but there could be some people who did miss voting, and that can alter the end result.
feos wrote:
23:59 UTC on January 15th is probably a typo since some time ago. Polls were created when I woke up on Jan7 and were all set to automatically end in 7 days, as always.
To my understanding, if every voting post clearly says "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026", then it should be open until at least that time.
If the polls ended early than it supposed to be, who can really trust if the end result is truly accurate?
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The link in your post is posted in 2021/2022, not 2025/2026.
No, I, myself, didn't miss voting, but there could be some people who did miss voting, and that can alter the end result.
If the polls ended early than it supposed to be, who can really trust if the end result is truly accurate?
That is the link that the 2025 awards post goes to so probably been the same link for awhile. I do see that maybe some people could have missed voting if it was ended earlier than expected.
To my understanding, if every voting post clearly says "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026", then it should be open until at least that time.
If the polls ended early than it supposed to be, who can really trust if the end result is truly accurate?
The issue is more that polls don't actually have a way to do that. Polls automatically close after a specified amount of days, and all this actually means is the amount of 24 hour intervals since the last time the poll was edited. You can't specify anything more specific than that with the current site. You can't even manually close the poll. The most you can do is extend or shorten the poll by 24 hour intervals, with at least 1 day of voting upon editing the poll (setting it to 0 days makes the poll indefinite). So people got exactly 168 hours to vote, starting from when feos initially created the poll.
23:59 UTC on January 15th is probably a typo since some time ago. Polls were created when I woke up on Jan7 and were all set to automatically end in 7 days, as always.
To my understanding, if every voting post clearly says "Voting will be open until, at earliest, 23:59 UTC on January 15th, 2026", then it should be open until at least that time.
If the polls ended early than it supposed to be, who can really trust if the end result is truly accurate?
The whole awards process is hard manual labor, and it involves insane amounts of copypaste. It's impossible to check everything every time, some things will get missed. The only solution to that is automatization, but coding that automatization to exist on the site is also hard manual labor.
The polls are supposed to last for 7 days, and they did.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
