Has the vote fairy taken ill?

Hey now... A few nights ago I upvoted a bunch of nodes and used up all my votes. A day or two after that I log into the Monastery and try and see what nodes are deserving an upvote (or not) and discovered I had no votes. Hmm?

So I /msg gods with a query on this and got a reply back from ysth who said:

Vote Fairy dislike of you, he ignores monks who don't appear to have been around; I'm guessing you are using a cloaked login cookie

That's odd...

What is a "cloaked login cookie" for one thing and another, what did I do to the Vote Fairy to make them not like me?

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

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Re: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by bobf (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2007 at 04:10 UTC
A similar question was asked a while ago. See Votes Left not resetting?, especially tye's responses to Re: Votes Left not resetting?. As I understand it, if you log in using a login cookie for one of the XML tickers then you aren't really here and therefore you can't (shouldn't) spend your votes, so the vote fairy doesn't even check to see if they need to be reset.	[reply]
Re^2: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by tye (Sage) on Jan 22, 2007 at 06:24 UTC
He must've figured it out because his home node went from saying that he hasn't been here for several weeks to showing him hitting the site every 10 seconds, like clockwork.¹ - tye ¹ I hope whatever polling he his doing at least slacks off when he isn't actively watching the results.	[reply]
Re^3: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2007 at 13:39 UTC
went from saying that he hasn't been here for several weeks to showing him hitting the site every 10 seconds, Hmmm... Katterbox (Java chat client) must poll in 10 second intervals. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]
Re^2: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2007 at 14:05 UTC
I still find it curious though that actually logging in and manually voting and posting replies doesn't get counted as "being here" if you log in with a cookie. As I told ysth in a private chat I've been using the same cookie for a couple of years and this is only the second time that I can recall not having my votes left count not update. I also find it interesting that invoking the Ketterbox chat client caused my last time here to start updating. Curious. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]
Re^3: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 22, 2007 at 14:18 UTC
AFAIK sporty never implemented cloaked fetches. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re: Has the vote fairy taken ill? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2007 at 02:29 UTC
what did I do to the Vote Fairy to make them not like me? Them? Ill? There be dragons	[reply]