VOTE NOW! BWW's 'Give Us Your Voice' - THE LITTLE MERMAID Contest — Page 9

I am extremely confused, is voting once or can we vote daily for our choice. I hope it is only once because it gets crazy on a daily basis and seems to skew the results. I have seen some contestants go up in votes by 100's in just one minute, whats up with that? Finally does the winner need to have some semblance of talent or can the person with the worst voice and no business entering actually win this?

That's just how contests like this work, unfortunately. I haven't learned my lesson to stop entering them because I am such a stupid optomistic dreamer lol. Unless this is so well advertised that there are hundreds of thousands/millions of hits/viewers/voters that have NOTHING to do with the contestants, this type of voting never works right. And even with that, they should have either random entries appear for the people coming to vote or rotate the entries so that they all get a chance to be on the first page. Logically, anyone coming to visit this site who isn't just here to vote for a specific person, is NOT going to probably go through page after page... so the people on the first page have the greatest chance of getting random visitor votes.

Contests like these are usually about A) How many people you know and/or B) Finding a way around the voting system.. moreso than what the public actually thinks about their talent. I still think that by using an annonymous proxy server to mask your IP, people are getting around the system. I could do that too because I know how, but I won't stoop that low.. I couldn't enjoy my prize knowing that I had done that. And in all fairness, it may not be the contestants themselves.. it could be a fan or family member. And even if there wasn't cheating (which I highly doubt), it still becomes a popularity contest of how many people you know or how good your are at begging.. bottom line.. contests like these are always better off being judged by actual judges.

Just my one and a half cents..

~Elisha

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I just have to say... I think the fact that there is someone with over 5,000 votes is VERY sketchy to me. Especially because there are singers who are better... and I'm not saying that they're bad, but I don't really think that they deserve over 5,000 votes.

On another note, I kind of regret not singing Part of Your World now... because I sing that song really well... and my video definitely doesn't display my voice, which kind of sucks. Oh well, I'm definitely not going to win now... it's sad!

Craig.. they may not indicate that yet, but I believe that is because this contest is only a day and a half old. As time goes by and there are more visitors who are coming in to vote, it becomes more of a factor. The rush for the first couple of days is going to be people who contestants themselves have asked to come in and vote. As more annonymous voters come trickling in, I think the first page thing does become a factor. It can't help but become a factor, as I don't know anyone who would listen through that many pages of entries to cast their votes. A randomized list would just be better or a random "face off" system like the one Bix.com uses... not a perfect system by any means (as none are), but works a little more fairly.

And by the way, I'm not trying to be argumentative, nor am I angry in the least.. I'd just really like to see contests like this run more smoothly.. Not just for my benefit (as I know have no chance of winning this) but for all the others involved..

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Elisha, I voted for you,Charissa and Stephanie. You 3 are the best and there are others that are very good but this contest has gotten away from what it really should be which is a talent contest not just a popularity and or a how much can I try to get away with contest. My first choice was Stephanie since she really did a great job of acting out the part and her vocals are spot on. It should be voted on by a panel of judges and the winner should have to at least be able to carry a tune as you three clearly can, best of luck.
Jesus

Craig, I still don't know if we can vote once per day or if it's only one time for as many contestants as I want to vote for. Although it seems counter productive to place votes for multiple choices since you are defeating the idea of picking your favorite. I find it very hard to believe that anyone can legitamately go from 1000 votes at the start of today to over 5000 as of now. I watched the totals onn some go up by 1000 votes in just minutes, this is causing a lot of concern by your faithful and I believe the auditing should expose these people sooner rather than later.

A great, fun idea, but I can't watch all those videos. I wish there were some type of panel to wittle it down to 10 finalists that we could vote on.

Someone has over 8000 and it's been two days. Something's going on. =( Oh well. I tried.

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Guys...trust Craig and do what he said...breathe.

He is a pretty smart guy!

I have finally decided who my 3 votes are going to be given to. I decide more than 3 days of rotating would be too much. It was SO hard to pick!

someone has 13500 votes....

fishy? yes.

lol. in two days? seriously? does someone really think they are getting away with this?

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The recording session is delayed (according to Craig's other post in the banner thread)....I was actually kinda expecting the strike might also effect this!


It's ok though, I had a back up cheer me up plan for that weekend when I lost :) haha...looks like my friends are taking me to see Bare's premiere in Chicago with an opening night reception! FUN!

But hopefully the recording date isn't TOO late...early Jan would be good!

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This is not me. This is my friend, Caroline.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/mermaidvote.cfm?id=137

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