BUG: Trouble voting in Best of 2008.(read first post please)

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#1 OmegaCookie7
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From Brad:

I've made a couple of tweaks that should hopefully clear up the issues with redirecting to the front page, with another fix that will go live Monday morning to address the 404 errors.

In the meantime, please remember to let the pages load completely before voting; these pages are processing enormous amounts of data and casting a vote before all of this data is loaded could lead to unexpected results (i.e. 404 pages).

Thanks for your patience.

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#2 caddy
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I am also having trouble with voting. Like you, I have voted for most of the special achievement awards, but it seems any other award after that is not working. I click on vote, and it kind of refreshes the page, and then if I click on vote again, I get a nice little 404 error :(
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#3 RealKilla_789
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i too am having the same problem. i hope this doesnt affect our "emblem getting"
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#4 miladesn2
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same, I can't vote, it just redirects me to the index. I can't even see some of the pages like best graphic-technical (redirects). Fix it please, I want my emblem too.
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#5 brokenps2
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It keeps taking me back to the index page (gamespots home page)
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#6 Dracula68
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Can you all please list the OS and what browser(s) you have tried as well?
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#7 brokenps2
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Can you all please list the OS and what browser(s) you have tried as well?Dracula68
windows xp, Firefox
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#8 caddy
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Can you all please list the OS and what browser(s) you have tried as well?Dracula68
Sure. I am using Windows Vista and I have tried Firefox 3, IE7 and even Google Chrome. All of them give me the same problem.
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Vista and Firefox 3.0.5
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#10 RealKilla_789
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Can you all please list the OS and what browser(s) you have tried as well?Dracula68
windows xp and firefox 3.0.5
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#11 link027
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osk 10 something and safari I click on the vote button but nothing happens
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#12 halBU
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Windows XP and IE 7.05730.13

I got as far as the co-op multiplayer voting screen. When I click to vote, it flashes briefly as if it were going to register the vote, but then never shows the results. One more click gives me a 404 page.

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#13 zackattack784
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I am also having trouble with voting. Like you, I have voted for most of the special achievement awards, but it seems any other award after that is not working. I click on vote, and it kind of refreshes the page, and then if I click on vote again, I get a nice little 404 error :( Caddy06_88
This is the same problem I am having. I just tried voting again and Funniest Game, Best Driving Game, and Best PS3 game didnt work. Everything else did.

Edit: Forgot to add that I'm using Vista and I tried FF 3 and Google Chrome.

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#14 theunloved
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Same problem with me. I click and the screen flashes, a second click and the 404 pops up.
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#15 dalger21
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IE7 let me go through the whole thing without any major issues. I did get the reroute to the homepage a couple of times but was able to vote on everything. Fire Fox doesn't seem to like it very much as every time, I would get redirected.

Edit: Upon going back to check to see if everything was voted for, I noticed that I was unable to vote for funniest game and every subsequent game. It just fades in and out then if I click on a game to vote for, it goes to the 404 error page. That is very disconcerting.

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#16 xdude85
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I can't get past the Special Achievement awards, I'm at the Best U.K. Developed Game and it doesn't count my vote. It takes me instead to a 404 error page.
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#17 OmegaCookie7
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Windows Vista, Business Edition. Latest version of Firefox :)
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#18 jakule2000
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I use Windows XP Service Pack 2

I tried it on Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 3, Google Chrome, and my iPod Touch.

same results >_< ... it redirects.

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#19 Paully3433
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I got through most of them but what I had to do was click on the individual links on the top right of the page, not the bottom part. Although once and while I would hit a link that didn't work and it went straight to the gamespot home page. Vista, Firefox 3
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#20 ishoturface
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same ahppanend to me im using vista and i tried using fiirefox
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#21 Pittfan666
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Can you all please list the OS and what browser(s) you have tried as well?Dracula68
I'm running vista and firefox and I to am having problems voting. I can vote for a few of the entries, but most of them just send me back to the index page.
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#22 canana
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Yesterday,I haven't experimented any sort of bugs when voting in the most varied categories.However,today my votes hasn't been updated and every time that I vote it gives me the 404 Page not found error.

I am using FF and Windows XP.I have also deleted my cookies.

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#23 AzevedoB
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I've made a couple of tweaks that should hopefully clear up the issues with redirecting to the front page, with another fix that will go live Monday morning to address the 404 errors.

In the meantime, please remember to let the pages load completely before voting; these pages are processing enormous amounts of data and casting a vote before all of this data is loaded could lead to unexpected results (i.e. 404 pages).

Thanks for your patience.

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#24 Angel_Belial
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It happened to me on the Best Wii Games voting page (it may have happened in other sections and I just didn't notice). I clicked 'vote' and the buttons disappeared to refresh but just reappeared as the regular vote buttons again, and not the voting statistics. After clicking a couple more times, a '404 - Page Not Found' page came up. I'm using Windows XP and Firefox and will try in Internet Explorer tomorrow.
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#25 Paully3433
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Seems to be working better now, although I had it kick me out twice during the voting that I had to relog into the website. Just FYI.
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#26 ishoturface
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[QUOTE="AzevedoB"]

I've made a couple of tweaks that should hopefully clear up the issues with redirecting to the front page, with another fix that will go live Monday morning to address the 404 errors.

In the meantime, please remember to let the pages load completely before voting; these pages are processing enormous amounts of data and casting a vote before all of this data is loaded could lead to unexpected results (i.e. 404 pages).

Thanks for your patience.

i was wondering.. if you get that error do you have to vote all over again?
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#27 OmegaCookie7
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[QUOTE="ishoturface"][QUOTE="AzevedoB"]

I've made a couple of tweaks that should hopefully clear up the issues with redirecting to the front page, with another fix that will go live Monday morning to address the 404 errors.

In the meantime, please remember to let the pages load completely before voting; these pages are processing enormous amounts of data and casting a vote before all of this data is loaded could lead to unexpected results (i.e. 404 pages).

Thanks for your patience.

i was wondering.. if you get that error do you have to vote all over again?

I'd assume just for the ones that you haven't voted for. It seems to have remembered my successful votes.
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#28 Paladin_King
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i've had some weird problems voting as well. As well as the "redirect" issue, i've also clicked the vote button....for the page to do nothing. only when i refresh, do i see the current results. Looking at what i voted on yesterday, i've also noticed that these votes were not remembered or accounted for.
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#29 xdude85
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It's still messed up, I've gone back to make sure its counted my vote but it hasn't. I've tried three times to vote for everything but nothing works and I keep getting the 404 error page. I have Windows XP and AOL.
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#30 xdude85
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I've waited for all the pages to load, I've been patient, but itt still won't count my vote. I've now tried five times to vote, it won't count my vote, I keep getting the 404 error page, and I have to keep starting over.
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#31 one_on_one
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So I went through the Best of 2008 a few times in different days due to the issues. Each time I go through them it gives me the option to vote again and it doesn't show the percentages until I vote. Do that mean it's counting my votes as new votes?

I will go through it again just incase so I hope I'll get the emblem. There should be a thread for all the people who voted or attempted to but couldn't because of the issues, so they'll get their emblem.

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#32 klugenbeel
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It was working for me up until about the Game of the Year section and now its not posing and snowing results correctly for any of the sections. Are we going to have to revote on things we already voted, will we still get our Best of 2008 insigna like we did for 2007?

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#33 zackattack784
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Problems still aren't fixed. I still can't vote for funniest game and Best Implementation of User-Generated Content and many of the votes I had previously cast are no longer remembered. It forgot ALL my votes in every Dubious Honor's category. Something tells me I won't be getting my emblem this year....

Edit: I still can not vote for best driving, best fighting, best role-playing, and best puzzle games as well. I think I'm on my fourth time voting and this thing still isn't fixed.

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#34 azshorty2003
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had the same problem, voted, but kind of refreshed and didnt take the vote. voted a little bit ago, and it worked this time, but when i went back to check after i finished voting they all said click to vote. so my votes didnt save. some did, but most didnt.

xp, firefox

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#35 brokenps2
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Is the voting system working properly? Mgs4 is beating crysis warhead in best graphics!?
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#36 Dracula68
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Is the voting system working properly? Mgs4 is beating crysis warhead in best graphics!?brokenps2
You have to know by now voting like this is a popularity contest.
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#37 brokenps2
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[QUOTE="brokenps2"]Is the voting system working properly? Mgs4 is beating crysis warhead in best graphics!?Dracula68
You have to know by now voting like this is a popularity contest.

I thought so. The fact that the most popular games get voted highly, even though its against superior competition. Oh well, nothing i can do about it.
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#38 Thorpe89
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Went to check out the feature and it assumes I did not vote for anything! I voted on everything but now it has been reset. Bah. I recall having this problem last year too. :(
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#39 adolfobaja
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hi guys i dont know but i cant vote on the Special Achievement every time i select any of the option the page dont update my votes.. I all ready vote in the other catagorys with out problem,,I dont want to lose my emblem for the best of 2008 thks
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#40 OmegaCookie7
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Seems like I have to revote. I've voted on some categories several times now. Some of them remember my vote, but some of them seem to allow (require?) me to vote multiple times. I don't want to miss out on my emblem.
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#41 azshorty2003
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Went to check out the feature and it assumes I did not vote for anything! I voted on everything but now it has been reset. Bah. I recall having this problem last year too. :(Thorpe89
same problem here. ive voted like 5 times. some get saved as i go back through, but most are reset. and sometimes they all are reset. i wonder if anyones votes are saving. some of these totals look very low. i thought i remember a heck of a lot more people voting the past few year. so its either not as many people are voting, which doesnt seem likely, or its not saving the votes properly, which is very likely.
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#42 ishoturface
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if i got the error do i have revote?
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#43 adolfobaja
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hi guys,,well again i just check my votes,,and everything was reset..

so I need to re vote? I really dont want to lose my emblem...thks! guys

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#44 thattotally
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May I ask when do we get the emblems for voting? I'd really like to know.

There are times when I click on one of the categories and it appears that I've already voted, shown by the fact that they put percentages. But then at other times I come back to find the "vote for this game" tab. So it's as though my vote doesn't register. Any word on this?

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#45 OmegaCookie7
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Yeah, I've voted on all Dubious and Special Achievement awards about 3 times now, and just redid the genre awards. Sorta over voting. All other awards are also reset. Gra.
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#46 adolfobaja
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same problem here!...Im all ready vote twice in all the categorys,,and always I get back everything is reset,,so how many time we need to vote?
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#47 damariofan
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After the reset, I tried re-voting but my vote won't register. Note that I did let all the pages load completely. Is there a way this can get fixed? Because it's ridiculously frustrating.
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#48 Sorcerrer
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.Im all ready vote twice in all the categorys,,and always I get back everything is reset in some categorys

and will we take our emblem?

I really dont want to lose my emblem

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#49 DouglasBuffone
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I am getting several errors: 1) Votes simply not recording, the page flickers like it is refreshing but it just has the button "Vote for this game" again 2) Votes recording but when I go back to the page at a later point, they are not recorded 3) I am being logged out when I go through the categories. I am prompted to log back in many, many times I just thought I would bring this to your attention Thanks!
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#50 Bluebirdsince94
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I am getting several errors: 1) Votes simply not recording, the page flickers like it is refreshing but it just has the button "Vote for this game" again 2) Votes recording but when I go back to the page at a later point, they are not recorded 3) I am being logged out when I go through the categories. I am prompted to log back in many, many times I just thought I would bring this to your attention Thanks!DouglasBuffone
same exact issues here