Contest Voting Issue

Dear Verified Humans who participated in, or tried to participate in the I am human graffiti contest voting,

We have become aware of an issue with the voting bot that we have been utilizing for the Sybil-resistant contest voting channel.

In short, the vote count stopped at 125, and no one has been able to vote since. When they try to vote, they get a message that states "This interaction failed".

The Humanode team contacted the developer of this bot, trying to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, we were told that “The poll seems to be lost from our database”.

After further investigation, we received a reply stating that “If a poll ends it gets deleted so all data is gone, it seems like the poll was ended 5 hrs early because of an inaccuracy in system clocks, after that there is nothing I can do”.

The Humanode dev team will investigate the issue further to make sure that this will not be an ongoing issue, and to see if the root cause can be determined. If need be, we will find another voting bot.

In light of the above, and to make sure that there is absolute fairness in the voting process, the Humanode team will delete the current vote (as the DB is lost, we don’t know who got how many votes, and those who wanted to vote couldn’t), and conduct a fresh vote early next week or as soon as we can determine that there will be no further errors.

We apologize to those who have been affected by this issue (especially the contestants), and share your frustration caused by this error.

Please wait for the next announcement concerning the restart of the voting for the “I am human graffiti contest”.

The Humanode Team