Something seems to be wrong with the voting system—I entered my votes around when the voting phase started, including adjusting my quadratic votes to ensure I was as close as possible to 500 while staying under, then came back today and found that now somehow I’m over 500, despite not having changed any of my votes in the interim.
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.
Something seems to be wrong with the voting system—I entered my votes around when the voting phase started, including adjusting my quadratic votes to ensure I was as close as possible to 500 while staying under, then came back today and found that now somehow I’m over 500, despite not having changed any of my votes in the interim.
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.
Hrm. Sent a PM to chat more about it.