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  Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
NOTE: I have moved some entries into new categories in order to make the numbers more manageable. The super-scale cars are now together in what was "Macro Scale". Small Vehicles has been broken up into Fire Apparatus (along with a couple of 8-wides (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains) ! 
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
In lugnet.build.contests, Kevin Wilson writes: <voting details now posted> Cool. When do the polls close? Are you going to allow Floridians to vote? :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) On the 28th Feb. Sure... I don't see how they can mess this one up.. <g,d & r> Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths: (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
At least there is no butterfly ballot involved. Wouldn't want someone voting for the wrong large building (C010 +/or C017 or stucture (M013). :)- (Shameless (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) 4.06 begins to load the page and then just locks after it loads about 804k of the page. I tried emptying the cache, turning javascript on/off, etc. Nothing seems to work. ANy ideas? -chris (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Hey Kevin, Are you tracking IP numbers like they do for the MOTM LDRAW competition? Since they've had cheating problems with that, it seems reasonable that we might get the same issue as well. On that note, I only voted for about 6 of the categories (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) Mine worked, but it took a while. Josh (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Yeh, I'd like to know why there are a couple catagories, that are now being led by models that had NO votes this morning. I don't want to imply that certain people are cheating becuase I don't know that, but Shane Brunazzi's fire engines are in 1st (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Brad Hamilton wrote in message ... (...) The voting engine states that they check for double voting... could be by IP address or cookies, I don't know. Finding a voting engine which could handle that many questions with that many answers wasn't easy (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Christopher Tracey wrote in message <3A9004BE.C03A74CC@e...eb.org>... (...) It works fine for me using IE 5.5 on Win 95. I just tried it with Netscape 4.7 and it hangs in the same place you mentioned, about 805KB. It's a VERY long page, mostly (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Ryan Dennett wrote in message ... (...) Sure looks that way, Ryan. Would people who have already voted, email me and say how they voted, to give me a bit of a check on this? And those who have not, hold off for a while till I get this sorted out. I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  RE: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) In very small text at the end of each list of answers, it says how many votes there are for that question. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
(...) A procedural suggestion (and a suggestion only) to prevent another 2000 Florida. Since the voting rules were not stated early on, and it's only day one of a 10 day voting period, I think it would be "OK" to start over again on Monday, and to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
My Netscape Communicator 4.7 hangs up at 808k. Any other way to post results? I have not voted yet until all the kinks are worked out with the voting procedure. Was it designed in Florida? (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
Got through using Opera 5, must be some problem with Netscape 4. Other (smaller) poll results on that site work fine- must be a size issue. -chris (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
Mark Chan wrote in message ... <snipped intersting but complicated voting and registration system> (...) Too much :-) Seriously, I physically can't do that much. I also prefer to have the contest voting as open as possible, I deliberately and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
(...) That's true. We don't want you to get permanently cross-eyed like that county official in the infamous Florida chad counting picture :-) (...) This also has the added benefit of exposing more "outsiders" to the Lego community (always a good (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) Hi everyone! I think that the IP address thing is a great idea. It's good to get the cheaters out of there because that really isn't necessary. It's not like we are going for a million bucks here, it's just a chance for people to show their (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) I'm sure someone has encountered this already, but I didn't see it in this thread - I'm getting an error stating that this poll doesn't exist. Text is: The specified poll (1208828515) does not exist. Contact the webmaster who supplied this (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) You might want to try reading this thread: (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
 
  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open
 
(...) Thanks.. didn't see that one (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)

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