At 09:13 a.m. 5/02/2013, Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

>Em 4/2/2013 14:30, Paul Vinkenoog escreveu:
>> Hi Alexandre,
>>
>>>>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2012-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-104/database-of-the-year-4175441847/
>>>>> Only 2 days left before the polls close. Please cast your vote if you haven't done so already.
>>> I just give up trying to vote...
>>>
>>> I registered, and it's boring to register to anything... And it keeps
>>> saying I am not allowed to vote, it could be that my account is waiting
>>> for validation or something.
>>>
>>> I waited 3 days and nothing changed...
>> No, it says in the rules that "You must have at least one post to be able to vote."
>>
>> So, if you post something in, say, the Database of the Year forum (*), you should be able to vote immediately after that.

It doesn't work and it didn't work last year, either. I'm registered since 2003, at which time I posted a few times, though not in that list. No posts in recent years and it keeps indicating I have no posts. It also shows my account as "Not allowed to post a new thread but allowed to reply".

I'm also forbidden to look at the poll results - I get a "not authorized" message.

I suspect a combination of a MySQL back-end and a poorly tested implementation of the list software there.

Whatever.

Helen