Hold your horses Norm, and let’s analyze for a while what’s going on.
I’ve looked to almost all ideas and I’ve got to say I’m amazed about how good ideas are getting almost no response and on the other hand the popular are to put it nice… dumb.
This outcome has got to do with the website’s voting software which is not right: you can view from the same ip any idea for how many times you want. So if you have time you can get your idea viewed for 1000 times in two hours. Usually for online voting there can be only one vote for one ip, simple software protocol. Then, you can have visitors reading the idea, but no one is recording them because the site takes only considers the “plays”. So there might’ve been many reading your idea, but if they didn’t play the movie – nobody knows about them. Then look at the comments, a great deal of them – those in favor in general - are from people who entered to put just one comment. Now who on earth comes to a site goes with the ordeal of registering themselves to just put a comment like “Great idea, I think it will fly” and then go. They got to be buddies with the author of the idea. I am no language person, I speak only my English, but I can tell when there the same hand writing comments under different names and if this is happening it can’t be right!
Therefore the votes, plays and the popularity should bear no relevance to the jury, cause they are who they are and I’m sure they can spot funny things easy.
Now the TV people behind the contest could’ve left theses flaws intentionally to see what’s happening but still makes it unfair to people with less buddies. New comers are looking at the most popular first and they might get bored to get to the end of the list and leave.
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Hold your horses Norm, and let’s analyze for a while what’s going on.
I’ve looked to almost all ideas and I’ve got to say I’m amazed about how good ideas are getting almost no response and on the other hand the popular are to put it nice… dumb.
This outcome has got to do with the website’s voting software which is not right: you can view from the same ip any idea for how many times you want. So if you have time you can get your idea viewed for 1000 times in two hours. Usually for online voting there can be only one vote for one ip, simple software protocol. Then, you can have visitors reading the idea, but no one is recording them because the site takes only considers the “plays”. So there might’ve been many reading your idea, but if they didn’t play the movie – nobody knows about them. Then look at the comments, a great deal of them – those in favor in general - are from people who entered to put just one comment. Now who on earth comes to a site goes with the ordeal of registering themselves to just put a comment like “Great idea, I think it will fly” and then go. They got to be buddies with the author of the idea. I am no language person, I speak only my English, but I can tell when there the same hand writing comments under different names and if this is happening it can’t be right!
Therefore the votes, plays and the popularity should bear no relevance to the jury, cause they are who they are and I’m sure they can spot funny things easy.
Now the TV people behind the contest could’ve left theses flaws intentionally to see what’s happening but still makes it unfair to people with less buddies. New comers are looking at the most popular first and they might get bored to get to the end of the list and leave.
So Norm, don’t drop out! Not yet!
by Loy Veal