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November 2020's Boat of the Month Vote!

November 2020's Boat of the Month Vote!

  • I vote for "Jup's" Vintage Factory Shot!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .

Chris

Administrator
Staff member
This is your eleventh chance of 2020 to get your boat out front gracing our front page!

Here's how this deal works for those of you who don't know...

The top vote getter in our poll will be declared our "Boat of the Month" for November 2020 and the bottom vote getter will be eliminated from next month's poll. The remaining three boats will carry over to next months poll and we'll find two new ones to add to make a total of five.


Here are the rules! Please read them before voting!

1) To be eligible to vote in this poll or any poll, you must have 100 total posts and have been a member for at least 365 days. If you wish to bypass those two thresholds, then you have the option of joining our supporting member program.

2) NO voting for your own boat!

3) No relatives or family members voting for your boat either. IF multiple voters are found with the same I.P. addresses voting for the same entry, we will view this as suspicious and we will investigate. If irregularities are found, the entry in question will be dealt with appropriately.

4) One member, one household, one vote! You are only supposed to have one account. If you have multiple accounts, contact me and I will merge the accounts into one with combined posts etc. Given that you're not supposed to have multiple accounts it stands to reason, you shouldn't be using multiple accounts to cast more than one vote. Again, if this is discovered, we will deal with it as fairly as possible. However, if an owner is found to be stuffing the ballet box so to speak, or breaking the rules, the most likely result will be disqualification from the poll. Claiming your two year old voted or the family dog has an account and voted won't wash!

5) All votes will be public. So names will appear beside the voting option similar to how they appear for the nominations.

Let's remember folks, this is supposed to be a fun little feature people. Let's not take it too seriously. Let's keep some perspective and have some fun.

Pics up for consideration are posted below.
 
Entrant #1, "TuGHiLLBoYs" Convincor Shot! :cheers:



tughillboys.jpg
 
Yes, on my home computer the pix also do not show up. Microsoft windows 10 latest version laptop Using Chrome. Wonder what's happening? Chris?
I CAN see pix on other threads with the home computer.
I usually use my Apple device for this site.

Edit: I also called up this thread using Edge. I never use Edge. But, No pix. Hm
Downloaded Firefox. Logged into the site. Still no pix for me using Firefox. Weird.
Used Bing. Yep, there's all the pictures again.
 
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I need to correct my terminology, I don't use the Microsoft browser very often. It was in fact Microsoft Edge where I could see the pics.
 
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Hi Folks,



It's probably all the security crap they force us to use now.


The want us to run encrypted connections on https but then of course, many people link images from other sites which break the secure connection anyway.


If we don't run on https, then even a casual visitor gets a warning that the site isn't secure which isn't really true. We aren't running a bank here, it's a site for boating pictures, but everyone is forced now to run on encrypted connections or visitors get browser warnings and penalized by Google.



For what it's worth, the pictures show for me fine on Firefox and edge no problem.


The real problem is that we really need to update the forum software to something more modern. I updated Endless Boating some time ago and the software there XenForo is much better.



It's really off topic in this thread I know - my fault...


...But what do you folks think if we change software platforms?


It would mean a big change, but it would also allow us to have a much more user friendly platform especially for mobile and tablets.


We kind of have an older crowd here though and I thought it might be hard for some to learn a new software platform and it might frustrate them.



Let me know your thoughts.



-Chris
 
I'm up for changing it. Incidentally shortly after my last post I started being able to see the pics in this post.


Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone who voted for my pic, I'm proud to finally have a pic of the month!
 
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