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Instant Runoff Vote Bug

manatherindrell said:
I don't know if this is another case of me not understanding the forum's inbuilt vote tally program or a genuine bug, but I was trying to do some testing of the instant runoff vote option, and it's not pinging the test votes.

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Well part of it is that a bunch of people in your thread don't understand how voting on Xenforo works [] is not a valid vote, it has to be [X] or [x] (or numbers).

Your test votes aren't working cause you're the OP and thus your vote doesn't count.
 
AztecCroc said:
Well part of it is that a bunch of people in your thread don't understand how voting on Xenforo works [] is not a valid vote, it has to be [X] or [x] (or numbers).

Your test votes aren't working cause you're the OP and thus your vote doesn't count.
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The empty brackets are from people who were posting support for the options they liked during the voting moratorium.

As for the test votes, I'm not the only one who made them. I wanted to see if the tally program wasn't picking up on another poster's test votes because they were the only person who entered only. Instead of coming up with one or two voters like I expect it to, it's coming up with 0.
 
manatherindrell said:
The empty brackets are from people who were posting support for the options they liked during the voting moratorium.

As for the test votes, I'm not the only one who made them. I wanted to see if the tally program wasn't picking up on another poster's test votes because they were the only person who entered only. Instead of coming up with one or two voters like I expect it to, it's coming up with 0.
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You mean Arkatekt? Cause I don't see any other votes using number, the presence of the other actual votes in his comment is confusing the system. You can't mix number votes and normal votes and you can't just put a bunch of normal votes in a single post a have it interpret it as a run-off. You must use numbers for a run-off vote X or x are treated as 1, the posts aren't being picked up because the program doesn't know what to do with posts with multiple top options.

You aren't seeing any votes because EVERY SINGLE VOTE in your thread is malformed and being thrown out by the program.

Something like:

[X] Option1
[X] Option2
[X] Option3

is not a valid vote, the program is reading that as:

[1] Option1
[1] Option2
[1] Option3

and throwing it out because it can't use that.
 
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You mean Arkatekt? Cause I don't see any other votes using number, the presence of the other actual votes in his comment is confusing the system. You can't mix number votes and normal votes and you can't just put a bunch of normal votes in a single post a have it interpret it as a run-off. You must use numbers for a run-off vote X or x are treated as 1, the posts aren't being picked up because the program doesn't know what to do with posts with multiple top options.
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Yeah, that's who I mean. I would have thought that switching the tally to instant runoff mode would either count numbers while excluding x-s or convert x-s to 1s.

I am rapidly beginning to hate the tally program. It's even more unintuitive than Net Tally and it's really hard to test anything without screwing up your thread.
 
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manatherindrell said:
Yeah, that's who I mean. I would have thought that switching the tally to instant runoff mode would either count numbers while excluding x-s or convert x-s to 1s.

I am rapidly beginning to hate the tally program. It's even more unintuitive than Net Tally and it's really hard to test anything without screwing up your thread.
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It does convert the Xs to ones but you can't have multiple ones, which every post in your thread does since they have multiple Xs. Also the internal tally program is just an integrated version of NetTally.

AztecCroc said:
Something like:

[X] Option1
[X] Option2
[X] Option3

is not a valid vote, the program is reading that as:

[1] Option1
[1] Option2
[1] Option3

and throwing it out because it can't use that.
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It doesn't seem to be that either. I just started a new vote with pure runoff voting, and they're still not being counted. I'm on mobile right now so I won't be able to test if NetTally has the same issue until later.
 
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