I've certainly been a part of and observed quite a few conversations about this, but none of them recently. But from searching, it looks like the knowledge of this phenomenon was mostly unwritten and remains mostly undocumented.

Voting/Experience System coyly references the phenomenon but provides no explanation. The skipped days, skipped votes thread explains it a bit but mostly links to an explanation of the underlying problem. In particular, (tye)Re: Last checked flag not updating? explains the underlying problem.

To fix the problem, I've rewritten the node cache. And I (and others) have spent a lot of hours trying to get it deployed. I still hope to do that.

Right now I'm rather busy getting settled at my new job (I use my company-provided laptop for accessing PerlMonks as my other two personal computers are very often being used by other members of my family and this new laptop doesn't even yet have the keys needed for doing such serious work on the PerlMonks servers). But I'm always looking for a big enough block of time to work on deploying this again.

- tye        

In reply to Re: vote fairy goofing off? (classic) by tye
in thread vote fairy goofing off? by ww

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