Hmm, I misremembered some things. Need to refresh my memory
Also, had anyone but yuma and Haddock ever encountered not getting PPE?
To be clear... I don't think that the not getting a PPE was the system's fault. I think it was a situation where I shouldn't have gotten a PPE because of some circumstantial issues.
Here is what the situation was for me.
I generally am not always on the forum. Most of the time because I am at work and don't want it just sitting open all day long. So, instead I subscribe to the f.ds e-mail system. This allows me to receive e-mail updates from the thread to my g-mail, which I feel more comfortable leaving open.
When I receive an e-mail from f.ds. If I am free, I read it. If I feel compelled to respond I click on the link that takes me to that specific post (well sometimes it takes me to the post that I had last read when I had last logged off, not sure what delineates that). From there I can hit the reply button and send a response.
So here is what I think happened:
Haddock posts at 4:01. This generates an e-mail to my system, which I get. Read and realize that I wasn't voting for Awaclus. I thought I was (and wanted to be), so that necessitates me to go in and post a vote. So I open the thread.
In the meantime RR posts at 4:02 and votes for awaclus. This also generates an e-mail. But I don't get it inbetween the time that I read the previous one and start posting. Because if I had seen the g-mail tab indicate that I had received another e-mail I would have stopped posting and gone to read it.
In addition ss posted at 4:02 and I didn't get an e-mail for that. Well I did for both, but they came a bit later. I deleted them from my g-mail, otherwise it gets super jammed up, so I can't go back and check the exact times that they came in.
And i posted my post with the vote at 4:03. So everything went down in the space of about 2 minutes.
Now. I believe that if I had scrolled down from the haddock post that I was taken to I would have seen RR's vote. But I didn't. That is my fault. But that is because I was relying on the e-mail system to get me any posts. That has worked in the past, but in this situation it didn't.
So I don't think the PPE system failed, but instead the e-mail generation system that I use failed (at least for the purposes that I use it for... of which maybe I shouldn't use it for).
So I guess feel free to not believe that if you want. There isn't any way I can show you that is what happened because it is all off line and now deleted anyways... (and I wouldn't share my personal e-mail system with the forum anyways...). But I think this should show that there is a reason for what happened that has the narrative for me not being scum... where as the me being scum narrative is that I purposely hammered within the window of two minutes and made up a story about it when there more obvious choice as scum would have been to declare intent, wait for awaclus to be awaclus and then just hammer him. I guess there is a narrative that I could have mistakenly hammered as scum, but that isn't what you are saying anyways...