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Recently I've had a poll totally disappear on my forum. The topic started with a poll in it, and a few days later it was simply a normal topic, with no sign of the poll. I even went and checked the files. There's no poll file anywhere, and even the poll include was gone from the cgi. It simply... vanished.

Any clues, Charles?

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[This message was edited by Charles Capps on June 02, 2003 at 10:03 AM.]

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Polls can't just go away...

So the 12 character poll ID is no longer in the datafile? The topic appears with the normal topic icon in forumdisplay?

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I know, that's what I said, it can't just disappear. But it did.

Yes, the previously-poll now appears as a totally regular topic with no sign of the poll ever being there. If I didn't see it there before with my own eyes I'd say it was impossible, but there you go. The only thing that happened with that poll was that an admin edited in a text comment. So I was wondering if it's possible that that later text insertion overwrote the poll ID, which normally doesn't show up in the edit post box. That'd be the only explanation I can think of.

But then again, we've similarly edited polls before but it never removed the actuall poll...

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Aye... welcome to the land of the impossible. I've seen this before, but I've never been able to reproduce it.

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I guess this one will remain a mystery then...

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