Oh, sorry. I know why this happened. Last year we had a bug where downvotes of strength 1 didn’t cost you anything (and downvotes of strength 2 only cost as much as strength 1, etc.), because of a simple off-by-one error in the formula we were using.
When I pushed the vote on Monday night, I accidentally didn’t include the fix I had for that bug, noticed my mistake on Wednesday and fixed it right then, hoping that nobody had entered all of their votes yet. Apparently I was wrong.
I did check the data, and nobody else was as fast as you were, and nobody is currently above the 500 limit, so I don’t think anyone else walked into the same trap.
Sorry for the confusion! Should have double checked that nobody had indeed accidentally gone over the limit.
Oh, sorry. I know why this happened. Last year we had a bug where downvotes of strength 1 didn’t cost you anything (and downvotes of strength 2 only cost as much as strength 1, etc.), because of a simple off-by-one error in the formula we were using.
When I pushed the vote on Monday night, I accidentally didn’t include the fix I had for that bug, noticed my mistake on Wednesday and fixed it right then, hoping that nobody had entered all of their votes yet. Apparently I was wrong.
I did check the data, and nobody else was as fast as you were, and nobody is currently above the 500 limit, so I don’t think anyone else walked into the same trap.
Sorry for the confusion! Should have double checked that nobody had indeed accidentally gone over the limit.