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One thing to take from this page before anything else: this is an open online vote of self-selected visitors. It is not a poll and it does not measure a population. Everything below is written so that a figure from this site can be quoted accurately in one sentence, under deadline, without a phone call.
Open online vote, self-selected — not a poll. Model version v1.0.
| Accurate | Not accurate |
|---|---|
| An open online vote on hateorcelebrate.com | A poll, a survey, or a study |
| Of the ballots cast on the site, 62 percent celebrated it | 62 percent of people celebrate it |
| Self-selected visitors, not a sample of any population | Representative of Canadians, of the internet, or of any group |
| A counting interval of plus or minus 16 points at n = 100 | A margin of error of plus or minus 16 points |
| Counted ballots over the 30 days to a stated date | All-time votes, with no window given |
The percentages in the left column are examples of the FORM of an accurate sentence, not figures from the site. Live figures are below and in the data.
Every subject page prints one citation sentence and offers no other. It fills every slot a newsroom template needs, which means a quote taken from it cannot be assembled out of parts that disagree. Here is the sentence as it stands right now, for the subject with the most counted ballots:
Abandoning A Book Unfinished: 0 counted ballots and no reading yet (a reading is published at 10; 30 days to 2026-09-14, open online vote, self-selected, not a poll), hateorcelebrate.com/s/abandoning-a-book-unfinished, model v1.0.
A subject under 10 counted ballots has no score, and its sentence says so in those words rather than printing a percentage.
Subjects on the board
264
Active subjects in the pool.
Counted ballots, all time
0
Rows in this site's own table, with every exclusion already removed.
Excluded ballots
7
Held out of every published number, and itemised in the changelog.
Counted today, UTC
0
Most recent counted ballot
none yet
UTC.
Those are counted ballots. They are the only figures this site has, and they are measured by counting rows in its own database.
There is no audience measurement behind this site. No panel, no third party verifying traffic, no impressions, no uniques, no reach and no engagement rate. Any of those numbers would have to come from somewhere, and there is nowhere here for them to come from, so the site offers none of them rather than quoting a figure from an analytics dashboard as though it were measured.
A ballot count is also not a visitor count. One person can cast a verdict on many subjects, and most visitors cast none at all.
Every image above is generated from the live counts, so a card saved today and published next month shows a figure that has moved. Print the date you took it. There is no logo pack and no brand guideline document to download: when those exist they will be on this page, and until then this line is the answer rather than an email thread.
No brand-suitability assurance is published for this site, so none is offered here. What can be stated is what the rules in the code do, which is checkable rather than promised:
Both routes below post to this site and are recorded the moment they are submitted. Neither one hands your message to a mail application and hopes.
There is no published mailbox for this site. That is deliberate rather than an oversight: an address that nobody has committed to reading is worse than no address, and the forms above reach a queue that is actually looked at.
On deadline
If you need a figure checked before you file, send it through corrections with the sentence you intend to print. The answer goes into the public ledger, so the next reporter to ask the same question finds it already answered.
Those are descriptions of the mechanism, not a warranty about every future subject.