Thursday, October 25, 2012

Poll Hacked?

I don't think it was really "hacked", but the results are gone. At least that's what I see. I don't see the old poll results on FallynRayne's blog either. Is anyone familiar with this issue? I failed googling anything relevant, I always seem to get something about some politicians.

It's no big deal right now, I remember the results, but if they got periodically deleted, that would suck. I wanted to have a real analysis of which characters were liked or hated in the future.

6 comments:

  1. Databases have an innate hatred against all who use them. Seemingly random datawipes aren't surprising, especially for non-core functions. Sometimes, they just crap themselves entirely, corrupting everything. I've even experienced a database creating corrupt backups, which we found out when the database itself imploded. Good times.

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    1. I was expecting the ones used by this site to be reliable. I first saw the results were missing around 8 hours ago. No backups? Gods.

      I could put my beginner knowledge to use and make a website, but why would that be any better...

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  2. I saw the results were wiped last night, about 12 hours ago. I and a few other people appeared to have voted again but now, this morning, the results are gone again. Sorry this has caused you a headache.

    8(

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  3. I just did a google check on what happened with polls for blogspot and other blog polls and it appears this has been a widespread problem since yesterday. Your poll is not alone. I've found no ETA on when this problem will be fixed.

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  4. I hope they have some uncorrupted backups. :) It's only mildly saddening in my blog's case. I'd be mad if it happened after release.

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  5. From what I've read, in the past, they have had uncorrupted backups but I'm not sure about what will happen this time around. It appears last Aug they had a similar problem and managed to fix it with backups. Lets hope for the best.

    8)

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