Your account is two months old, as anyone can see: https://askubuntu.com/users/1319 <td>member for</td> <td><span class="cool" title="2010-08-16 08:42:04Z">2 months</span></td> So it seems you had the message inserted a long time ago, and just never visited until then. (although it is true, we should remove the old messages after the poll ends, but this was really a special case in every way)