It's a popular award, so it's the same people who were voting for it - or rather, the fans of the people who cared to ask their fans to do so, since the Ursa Majors don't seem to send out email to those who've nominated/voted last year.
Technically, they nominated the stories, not the author - however, if a given author is popular, and has enough works, they can get nominated as a block, since there's no limit on the number of nominations a person can make. It's happened before, in that category and in others.
Arguably if a given author is popular enough to get all the nominations, they'd clearly win the award. However, the number of nominations (and, indeed, votes in certain categories) can be very low, so it's not super-representative. You can check out the recommended list to see works which didn't make it.
It's a popular award, so it's the same people who were voting for it - or rather, the fans of the pe
Registration does work; I just tested it from another computer, as you can see on recent changes.
I see an access from your IP address in the logs, but only to the front page of the version for your native language. I don't see an access to the registration page - and all the return codes in the logs were 200 or 301. So if you're getting a 500 error from there, it's probably coming from CloudFlare.
I've added you manually to the trusted IP list, and dialled their security down a bit in general (we get a lot of spammers trying to get in). Does it work any better for you now?
Registration does work; I just tested it from another computer, as you can see on recent changes. I
I figured out the Varnish cache server choked on my referrer due RefControl when accessing the register page. Also afterwards it seems the site doesn't like to login when I'm on HTTPS.
Anyway I got it working. Thank you very much.
I figured out the Varnish cache server choked on my referrer due RefControl when accessing the regis
Yes, I've noticed the HTTPS thing in the past, too - it seems to happen only on certain browsers. It's annoying, as I'd like to move us to only-https: but that's really not an option if half of the editors can't login. :-p
I may just take Varnish out and replace it with nginx to handle https - then maybe turn off CloudFlare.
Yes, I've noticed the HTTPS thing in the past, too - it seems to happen only on certain browsers. It
