I saved the ranking page yesterday at 12:00 GMT-3 (it was between 11:00 AM and 13:00 GMT-3) because the rank of the most voted novel restarts at 14:00 GMT-3 for me.

I did this because last week the most voted novel had a certain number of votes, but when it was elected that number of votes fell. I did not have any proof that time, so I was quiet and waited for the new ranking.

Actual rank in webnovel.com: https://www.webnovel.com/vote
Actual rank in archive.org (just to be safe in case they edit it): https://web.archive.org/web/20180226123501/https://www.webnovel.com/vote
[Please, use this method to navegate between the rank I hosted yerstady and the rank I hosted today: https://i.imgur.com/IJU5hON.png ]

And as you can see in the link, the effect was repeated. The elected Novel lost votes. It was 346,289 and now has 344,356.

By the links you can see a 2k lost, but the lost was over 20k. Yesterday the rank did not close at the same time as usual, apparently closed early in today morning, but I spent the whole afternoon yesterday updating that page and the last number of votes I saw was 360k. So, Qidian, are you really messing with the votes?

    Wouldn’t be surprised. It’s not like the voting thing matters anyway since they just randomly pump out other novels lol.

    Cytric Thanks for your feedback. We will never ever modify the data by ourselves. It's really weird for me, too. So I asked my statistics colleagues. They told me the due time for energy stone of last TOP1 novel is to the 12PM UTC+8 SUNDAY. However, our editors usually publish the TOP1 novel at about 9AM UTC+8 MONDAY. So we can always vote for this book during the 9 hours. That's the reason why there is a gap between 346,289 and 344,356. I will take this feedback to our product manager to assure the vote result more accurate. We really appreciate your carefully observation and thanks again for your feedback.

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