Anyone Else Having Trouble Voting?


RPG Superstar™ 2012 General Discussion

Dark Archive RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka FaxCelestis

I can't get the forum to accept my votes. I've checked I'm only submitting 8 selections. I've logged out and in again. I've tried another browser. No dice.

Dark Archive RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka FaxCelestis

Apparently I needed to post this thread. It works now.

Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9

FYI, a little browser wonkiness:

I usually use Opera (currently 11.61 under Vista 32-bit) to surf Paizo. When I attempted to vote...

Chris Lambertz wrote:
If you see checkboxes instead of "your vote has been recorded" your vote has not been recorded.

...it refreshed the page, but didn't appear to have recorded my votes. But when I logged in under Firefox (9.01), the site server said my vote had already been recorded.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Weird. We'll look into it. There shouldn't be anything too terribly odd with that page, but one never knows.

Sczarni RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32 , Champion Voter Season 6, Champion Voter Season 7, Champion Voter Season 8, Champion Voter Season 9

I tried to log my initial vote using Chrome and it didn't work. Firefox did though.


It looked as if the page had some hiccups. I managed to vote after some <vote> and <reload page> button-smashing.

EDIT: Maybe too many people tried to vote at the same time? :P

RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32 , Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka artofcheatery

Add another to the "voted via Chrome and it never gave me a confirmation, but I logged onto Firefox and it said I had already voted"


I'm also using Chrome and it kept giving me checkboxes instead of confirmation. I ended up hitting vote about 10 times and it went through, but it sounds like there might be Chrome issues.


Nope, I had the same on Firefox. Hadn't tried on Chrome.


I had issues on Firefox, but got through after enough tries.

Marathon Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9 aka Clouds Without Water

Voted with Chrome on Ubuntu, no issues.

RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Dedicated Voter Season 9 aka motteditor

I was having trouble with IE at work and now with Firefox at home. Will try again later.

Dark Archive Contributor , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9 aka Boxhead

I had a bit of trouble with Safari on my iPad, but it's gone through now.


Using Firefox and my vote won't go through. I'll try IE and see if it works.

Edit: Yep. I brought up the poll on IE and it said my vote's been recorded. Weird.

Star Voter Season 6

I tried Safari and it didn't take, then tried Firefox and the votes hadn't been recorded and weren't accepted.

I'll mash the buttons a bit more.

edit: and I hit the vote button one more time in Safari and it worked.


I had to refresh the page on firefox to get it to show that the votes had recorded.

Star Voter Season 9

For some reason my vote only got recorded after the fifth time I hit "Vote".

Grand Lodge Contributor , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9

Ceylon Tom wrote:
For some reason my vote only got recorded after the fifth time I hit "Vote".

Same here. I'm using Firefox.

RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8

One of my buddies also reports trouble getting his vote to register. Browser unknown.


Firefox, Win 7. Can't vote.


IE at work. Four tries. No dice.

RPG Superstar 2012 Top 4 , Star Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 9 aka MillerHero

The check boxes kept appearing after I hit vote in Firefox.
Went to IE, "Your vote has already been recorded"

Marathon Voter Season 6

I was disenfranchised by teh pehemgee 5 times before my votes were recorded.

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32, 2012 Top 4 aka OamuTheMonk

I had to try a couple times, but it eventually went through. I've already had one friend (whom I nagged into voting for me) tell me he couldn't get it to work, so that's disheartening.

Contributor, RPG Superstar 2009, RPG Superstar Judgernaut

I know in the past when there were problems with certain things on the website registering for my browser, it helps to logout and then log back in. A lot of people (myself included) just log in once to Paizo's site and stay logged in all the time. But, for some of the changes to take effect, I have to log out and come back in.

That said, for my own voting experience, I too had to push the vote button a few times to get it to take. I was using WinXP and IE, I believe. Later, I checked it again on WinVista and Firefox. Once I got my vote to take, it's worked fine every since.

Dark Archive

I'll add to Neil's comment. Voted, but did not register as such until I closed and reopened my browser.

RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32 , Star Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 8 aka nate lange

i also tried voting several times with no apparent success- but, like lord okoya, when i closed my browser and reopened it my ballot had been registered. it seems like the votes are working fine, its just the confirmation that's glitchy (at least for me). if you're having this problem try closing and reopening your browser, i bet you'll find out you're fine.

ps- Thank you for your support and please vote for my item! If you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them once voting for this round is closed.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8

Logged out and back in on Chrome 18 and Firefox 9.0.1, Win7. Still no joy when voting.

EDIT: Switched to a different computer, logged in with Chromium, it immediately said my vote was recorded. Came back to this one, refreshed the page, confirmed my vote was recorded.

I'm guessing some sort of lag recording votes?


Third time was a charm on Firefox 9.0.1 in Windows 7 OS.


Using Firefox and button mashed a lot. No vote recorded.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

We've figured out what the problem is, and will be rolling out the fix this afternoon. I'll post here again once it's fixed.

Silver Crusade

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Needed four or five tries with Chrome, with one Firefox attempt in between; got confirmation now, though, so it should be okay..

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

It's actually not tied to the browser you're using, this is a server-side bug. And like the best bugs, it's fixed by moving one line of code.

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2013 Top 4, RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16 , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7 aka primemover003

I'm still having the problem occur... IE8, windows 7 (my work comp, will try at home later).

--Vrock the Vote!

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Sorry, I should've been more clear in my previous post. This bug has not yet been fixed. I will post again here and specifically say "this bug has been fixed" when it has been fixed.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

This bug should be fixed now.


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Gary Teter wrote:
This bug should be fixed now.

It isn't the promissed message! :P

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2013 Top 4, RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16 , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7 aka primemover003

Yep it has. And I think I was posting just about the time you brought the site down for PM's!

--Vrock the Vote!

Star Voter Season 6

Hmm. I went back to the voting thread, and saw checkboxes again instead of the message that my votes had been recorded.

I signed out and signed back in again, and still see checkboxes. Is this what I should see?

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

If you see checkboxes, your vote hasn't been recorded and you need to vote again.

Star Voter Season 6

Gary Teter wrote:
If you see checkboxes, your vote hasn't been recorded and you need to vote again.

Something's still not working for me then. I've hit the vote button about 15 times each in Safari and Firefox, and each time the page refreshes with the checkboxes coming back up.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

If you select more than 8 entries this round your vote won't be recorded. We should probably display a message to that effect once you click the vote button but I don't think we do currently. Could that be what you're running into?

Star Voter Season 6

Gary Teter wrote:
If you select more than 8 entries this round your vote won't be recorded. We should probably display a message to that effect once you click the vote button but I don't think we do currently. Could that be what you're running into?

I only selected six to vote for. Could it be because I'm voting for less than 8 entries?


Seabyrn wrote:
I only selected six to vote for. Could it be because I'm voting for less than 8 entries?

I don't think so. My vote went through, and I ticked seven.

Dedicated Voter Season 8

I beleive the site had serious problems at the point of time in question. for at leat 1 hour I couldn't even get anything on the entire paizo.com site to open. However, it all seems to be acting normally today.

Selecting less entries does not affect your ability vote. In my experience, you can both vote for less entries than you want, and, as I recall from last year, actually go back and change your vote at any point until the voting closes. I am not sure if the last is the case this year, but voting for less than 8 entries should, truly, be not problem.

Star Voter Season 6

Midnight_Angel wrote:
Seabyrn wrote:
I only selected six to vote for. Could it be because I'm voting for less than 8 entries?
I don't think so. My vote went through, and I ticked seven.

If you go back to the voting page, do you still see the message that your vote has been recorded?

(I saw it briefly, now I"m back to checkboxes)

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Ross has found another flaw in the voting code and is fixing it now. I'll post again once we've rolled out that fix.

You can vote for fewer than the maximum number of choices, and you can change your vote up until the time the poll closes.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

OK, the fix has been rolled. If you see checkboxes, your vote hasn't been recorded.

Star Voter Season 6

excellent - no more problems for me, I can see the message that my vote has been recorded :)

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