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Leppikania
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Odd-length polls

Postby Leppikania » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:10 pm

So, I was messing around with the developer tools in my browser, and I was surprised to find that the game accepted a poll duration of 8 hours despite not being an option in the dropdown list, even making the poll last 8 hours. (I've since deleted the poll)

Is this worth fixing?
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Postby Warzone Codger » Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:21 am

After some further testing, it seems you are able to make a poll of any length between 6 hours to 336 hours (14 days), the two extremes of the selectable options.

So not only we can make 8 hour polls, but also 9 days and 8 hour (224 hour) polls!
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Postby Flanderlion » Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:43 am

Sounds like a hidden feature rather than a bug.
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Postby Ballotonia » Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:08 am

Not worth 'fixing'.

Essentially, any duration within the given range is allowed. The web interface offers a list of options because that's more convenient to choose from than for instance an exhaustive list of numbers or entering a number of hours and then having to calculate how many days are how many hours in total.

There is no real reason I can think of to disallow an 'odd' duration. So if you want to use one of those, go right ahead.

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