Does anyone notice something unusual about this poll?

**Steve Machol** · 11-06-2001, 12:10 PM

Well, do you?

**EyeManFla** · 11-06-2001, 02:25 PM

I understood it ...what's the problem.....

Answer A....no brainer!:hammer:

**Maria** · 11-06-2001, 05:21 PM

This is either........

1) Devilishly clever, and we will all be shocked when Steve tells us the point of it.

2) Something really nerdy, like 'normally the syntax of the HTML code on a poll is fhjtewyh9432, but on this one it's fajfur309ew09', or some other total gibberish. John R will see it straight away. The thread will turn into a computer debate that only Steve and John will read.

3) Kind of stupid, in the style of 'No answer was given for answer A or B, therefore it can't be either of those, or the third one, so it must be the fourth'

4) Proof that Steve is really an alcoholic

**Darris Chambless** · 11-06-2001, 05:36 PM

Nope,

It looks pretty normal to me. Makes about as much sense as all the others :)

Remember the answer is almost never "E"

Darris C.

**Cindy Hamlin** · 11-06-2001, 08:30 PM

Maria,
As for your answers, I choose all of the above!:D

~Cindy

**Jackie L** · 11-06-2001, 09:06 PM

Well.......isn't it obvious?

**Joann Raytar** · 11-06-2001, 10:04 PM

Figuring out Steve's riddles is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole, or checkbox if you are talking internet speak.

**JennyP** · 11-07-2001, 12:24 AM

Yes. But I had to go back and look at other recent polls to be sure!
:bbg: JP

**shanbaum** · 11-07-2001, 09:28 AM

Yes, I can vote for more than one option without having to visit the page multiple times. That will save me some time.

**John R** · 11-07-2001, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by Maria
John R will see it straight away. The thread will turn into a computer debate that only Steve and John will read.

Jo's getting pretty good at it now as well :D
Maria as queen of the polls i'm surprized you did not notice the answer straight away........

Square pegs in round holes indeed, very well put Jo :D
or maybe ticks instead of moles...................

but as Maria aint got it. :hammer:
Internet speek on....
Its the difrence between a radio box and a check box
Internet speek off.....
Got it yet lass ???????????????????

**ioconnell** · 11-07-2001, 01:48 PM

Oh right I see it now, took me a while to figure it out!:D

**Steve Machol** · 11-07-2001, 05:33 PM

Originally posted by shanbaum
Yes, I can vote for more than one option without having to visit the page multiple times. That will save me some time.

It looks like Robert was the first one to explicitly state what the change was! :)

I have once again updated the software to the Board and that is one of the new features. There are a lot of changes, but there are some.

Can anyone figure out what some of the other changes are?

**Pete Hanlin** · 11-07-2001, 08:46 PM

Seems to me one of the new features is the board keeps track of which people are actively using it (I'm afraid I can't let you post that, Dave, Julie is also with me right now... Dave, why are you going for the reset button... Dave...)

Oops, sorry, but an OptiBoard that shows who moderators and even the administrator is is kind of spooky! I believe the Board is becoming smarter than we are! Perhaps it is sucking up the combined knowledge of everyone and combining it into one source of superoptical knowledge!

Hmmm, let's see, if it combined the postings of Darryl and Darris for example, we might find...

Light rays are always tracked from right to left on a ray tracing- much like the splatter from an arc welder when joining steel crossmembers on the Harley Soft Tail I once rode through a blinding snowstorm on my way to Tulsa. The incident angle of the ray upon the front surface of the lens will determine whether the light is reflected from or refracted through the lens- much like some liberal hippie perforating a perfectly legal ballot more than once and then blaming it on poor design which is obviously an argument aimed at weaker intellects than myself! Assuming the ray is refracted, it will travel through the lens at an angle determined by the index of say! did anyone see Ron Poppeil's new index card system? Its yet another example of the extreme brilliance of this master of propogation... and so on

Come to think of it, we may be giving OptiBoard more power than it might should have! Careful, Steve!

Pete

**LaurieC** · 11-07-2001, 09:51 PM

Is there a way to get the print smaller again? Is it the upgrade or did someone think I needed help dealing with presbyopia? The whole post does not horizontally fit on the screen. Do we really need me to be any more neurotic?:bbg:

**Steve Machol** · 11-07-2001, 09:59 PM

Laurie,

Nothing in the upgrade would have changed the font size. Are you using Internet Explorer? I've found that sometimes IE will change the font size on it's own. Go to View/Text Size, and change the setting to 'Smaller'.

**Darris Chambless** · 11-08-2001, 02:43 PM

Pete LOL,

There is one flaw in your compilation of the two different intellects. If you were to combine Darryl and myself you would end up with a maniacal sociopathic psychopath the likes of which the world has never seen. Could you imagine how methodical our deviance would be? We could take over the world while squashing all the little people along the way! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Come to think of it that's not a bad idea. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the computer to assimilate Darryl. Hmmm. This will take a little thinking. I'll get back to you on that one.

Ruling you later, ;)

Darris C.

**chip anderson** · 05-11-2002, 08:00 PM

Yes, but can't say it's worth any more or less attention than polls with a subject matter. This one probably got as much study a Florida ballot did at the "first voting".

Chip

**10 Pence Short** · 05-12-2002, 05:53 AM

'As far as we know it, Optiboard went on line on 05/12/02, and it became self-aware at 12:02pm on 05/13/02. In the panic the humans who created it tried to switch it off. In a pre-emptive strike, Optiboard launched a nuclear offensive against Opksi Bort, the Russain Optical portal, knowing that the retaliatery strike would wipe out the human threat. The machines took over.'

You have been warned!!

**Uncle Fester** · 04-07-2005, 11:06 PM

OK I'll bite. It's last post was in 2002 and is closed yet it shows on current forum. The total % of voters =175.87%

**shanbaum** · 04-08-2005, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by Uncle Fester

OK I'll bite. It's last post was in 2002 and is closed yet it shows on current forum. The total % of voters =175.87%

The "new feature" in the poll was that a voter could select more than one of the choices - so the selections' percentage share could total (number of selections) X 100, were every voter to select all of them.