Big time screwup: UPDATE! [View all]

Last edited Sat Dec 21, 2024, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)

EDIT: I have recreated the thread, so everyone can vote again! You can find it here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219842057

To all of you who replied to this post earlier with words of support and encouragement, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Thank you from the bottom of my 💙!! I'd hug you all if I could. Instead, I'll just post this:

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ORIGINAL POST
I have screwed up big time! ☹😨😰😥

I was getting ready to count the votes and make the thread for the finals, BUT. I accidentally deleted one of the preliminary threads!

When I made the preliminary threads, I forgot to set the time limit for the poll in the third thread. You have to do that when making the poll, and there's no way to do it retroactively. So it looked like the voting was still running in that one. I decided to do an edit and add a message in all caps saying that the voting is closed, and any votes posted after X time will not be counted.

So I clicked the new "Options" button on the post and went to hit "Edit," but I accidentally hit "Self-delete this post" instead, then hit "Okay" before I realized what had happened, and the whole post disappeared. I am so, so, SO sorry!

The only thing I can think of to do to rectify this is to recreate that post from scratch and give people another chance to vote in that thread. So that's what I will do later this evening. In the meantime, please accept my deepest and most profound apologies for this screw up.