"Best of" link borked?

August 12, 2006 2:52 PM

FYI, the "Best of" link is a little borked. I'm seeing no winners for Aug 10th, and two winners for Aug 9th, with a ton of runners up on the 9th.
posted by jonson to Bugs at 2:52 PM (13 comments total)

It's working, but weirdly. Usually mathowie or I will choose a few posts that we like and email or IM them to the other one and then we'll make final decisions. This week both he and I have been on vacation (I'm back, he's checking in, but away), so the process has gone a little choppier.

There's still one winner a day, but the winner for August 10th happened in my August 10th and not mathowie's, since we're a few hours different. I should probably just set my timezone to PDT but I was really hoping to avoid that. I just didn't think so many good posts would be in the three hours where his day and my day don't overlap.

There was an extra runner-up for (my) August 10th just because the juxtaposition of tiny animals and large scans was so compelling.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:09 PM on August 12, 2006

Ha Ha Joke on YOU! Admins keep money! Laugh at you! HA HA!
posted by blue_beetle at 3:13 PM on August 12, 2006

and I think you're all winners anyhow.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:25 PM on August 12, 2006 [1 favorite]

*sticks wad of chewed gum between pages of book and returns it to shelf*
posted by quonsar at 3:53 PM on August 12, 2006 [1 favorite]

Not to be ungrateful, but I think Otis's License Plate post was better than my Stephen Colbert post. I'm just sayin'.
posted by ColdChef at 4:02 PM on August 12, 2006

Feel free to give him your $30 then.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:17 PM on August 12, 2006

Sorry if I seemed flip. I know y'all probably put a lot of thought into your choices.
posted by ColdChef at 4:20 PM on August 12, 2006

We put a medium amount of thought into th...

QUONSAR I SEE YOU DOING THAT

but it's been a busy week.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:38 PM on August 12, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'd love to see the winners for each day listed FIRST rather than scattered between the runners up. :)
posted by bim at 6:27 PM on August 12, 2006

*sticks wad of chewed gum between pages of book and returns it to shelf*
posted by quonsar at 6:53 PM EST on August 12 [+ 1] [!]

OK, stop picking on the librarian. :)
posted by caddis at 12:43 AM on August 13, 2006

There's still one winner a day, but the winner for August 10th happened in my August 10th and not mathowie's, since we're a few hours different.
posted by jessamyn at 6:09 PM EST on August 12 [+] [!]

...but yet...

oh, I guess it goes without saying (because I forgot) but I'm thinking each "day" is midnight to midnight, pacific time.
posted by mathowie at 12:15 AM EST on August 1 [+] [!]
posted by dersins at 2:14 PM on August 13, 2006

What, do you want a refund?

It's an ad hoc contest, mathowie and I have been on vacation, the winners picked on one day fell an hour or two into the next day because of what I explained, it won't happen again.

Forget it, dersins. It's MetaFilter.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:18 PM on August 13, 2006

What, do you want a refund?

Geez, I was just kidding. What'd I, hit a nerve or something?
posted by dersins at 8:15 PM on August 13, 2006