It's time to vote for panels

[axiom_of_stripe]

The 2012 CON.TXT Panel Poll is up! If you're coming to the con, please vote for panels now and drum up support for your favorites among your fellow con-goers. Please VOTE EARLY and often exactly once! The poll will stay up until May 5th, but we will begin contacting moderators and confirming the most popular panels ONE WEEK FROM NOW, on April 28th!

Interested in being a moderator? You can put your name down at the end of the poll or contact panels@con-txt.net. You'll see the badge names of people who've already volunteered on the poll -- some of them many times, as some hearty mods have volunteered a lot knowing that some of their panels might not make it through the voting. (Thank you for your excellent enthusiasm!) Don't hesitate to join them if you're ready!

Edited 4/23 to update: In a fit of truly bad timing, our survey website, SurveyGizmo, experienced a registrar failure this weekend and is not correctly recording surveys from some ISPs, including parts of Comcast. If you click on the submit button and see anything in the CON.TXT frame other than a message thanking you for taking the survey, it was not correctly recorded. SurveyGizmo expects the domain to be fully resolved by Tuesday, but we apologize for the trouble!

Comments

[thalia]

I filled out the poll, and when I clicked submit, what came up looked like the Survey Gizmo home page with the Con.Txt border and left menu--there wasn't any kind of confirmation message. Does it look like things are submitting OK? I don't want to vote twice (some Chicagoan I am!), but I'd hate it if it didn't get through.

[axiom_of_stripe]

Hmm, that's not good! You should see the CON.TXT borders around a message thanking you for voting. We are seeing survey responses coming in, so if you want to tell me a few things you voted for I can check if any of them match to you....

[ambyr]

I got the same response to my submission.

[axiom_of_stripe]

I'm sorry this is happening! I'm trying to get in touch with the support at SurveyGizmo to fix this. In the meantime, surveys are coming in, so it is probably submitting your responses even though it's not confirming them. Would you like me to check and see if any of the responses match to you?

[ambyr]

Sure. As a starting point, I'm pretty sure I clicked yes for all the panels I offered to moderate :-).

[axiom_of_stripe]

Hah, yes, that would make sense! Unfortunately, it looks like that means that your response did not go through. I'm really sorry about this! Could you submit it again? (Thanks for helping me check it!)

[ambyr]

Okay, looks like that time went through!

[axiom_of_stripe]

Yes, I'm seeing a response that's a match for you now! Yay!

[axiom_of_stripe]

I checked on ambyr's responses and it looks like that indicates that your survey was not submitted, I'm afraid. :( I'm really sorry for the trouble!

[thalia]

Thanks for checking! I'll give it another try.

[thalia]

Got the same problem. I'm using Chrome--do you think it might be a browser issue? I'll give it a go with something else in the morning.

[axiom_of_stripe]

I don't think it's the browser, since I'm using Chrome myself, but thanks for trying again!

[thalia]

Huh. Well, I'm sure it'll work eventually.

[axiom_of_stripe]

We just got word from the survey site: it was a domain failure over the weekend. Success is going to depend on your ISP, but they're expecting it to work for everyone by tomorrow. Apologies for the rotten timing on this problem!

[stultiloquentia]

I'm having the same problem as the other commenters. Please post something if you hear back from SurveyGizmo!

[axiom_of_stripe]

I will let you know when I hear anything, and again, apologies!

[axiom_of_stripe]

We just got word from the survey site: it was a domain failure over the weekend. Success is going to depend on your ISP, but they're expecting it to work for everyone by tomorrow. Apologies for the rotten timing on this problem!