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I think I have found a small error in the vote display code for the electorship, most likely due to the same mechanics that prevent the showing of negative votes (which has already been established to be )

Anyway, pictures are worth a thousand words, right?

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One would expect the vote total to display 0, rather than +1, yes? I realize this could be as well, but thought I'd mention this odd behavior anyway.

The same thing happens in reverse - candidates you have voted down have a minimum of -1, instead of 0.

  • I see the same behavior. – Brant Aug 17 '11 at 16:06
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    It sounds like it may be ceil/floor'ing to 0 and then applying the weight of the viewer's vote. Weird – Dave McClelland Aug 17 '11 at 17:57
  • I think it's something like (scoreBeforeVote + abs(scoreBeforeVote))/2 + vote and S-BD. – Matthew Read Aug 17 '11 at 18:44
  • @Matthew - why would it be anything so complicated? – ChrisF Aug 18 '11 at 10:54
  • @ChrisF It's effectively the same as score = total < 0 ? 0 + vote : total but I wanted to express it without a conditional because I'm a math nerd. :P – Matthew Read Aug 18 '11 at 15:11
  • @Matthew - now I've looked again it's obvious, but I thought there was something more complicated going on. – ChrisF Aug 18 '11 at 15:26
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Dave has the correct answer here - if the candidate has < 0 total score we show 0 and then apply the weight of the viewer's vote.

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