Originally Posted by crazychris12:
“Voted 80 times for Hollie!!!”
“Voted 80 times for Hollie!!!”
Are you ill? The poor girl will literally die if she wins, anyway!
here we go again...BT busy on Boyles number,
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Originally Posted by GeneralMental:
“Are you ill? The poor girl will literally die if she wins, anyway!”
“Are you ill? The poor girl will literally die if she wins, anyway!”
I'm seeing my psychiatrist next on Monday.
Originally Posted by OathBreaker:
“Totally jammed cant get through....:yawn:
Will ITV EVER learn..”
“Totally jammed cant get through....:yawn:
Will ITV EVER learn..”
I got through Oathy
Do you want me to vote on your behalf?
You can imagine agents and media are on redial, she is the one that will make the most money for the show producers.
The public almost don't need to spend their money. It seems unfair but most of these acts will have good careers.
The public almost don't need to spend their money. It seems unfair but most of these acts will have good careers.
Originally Posted by crazychris12:
“Voted 80 times for Hollie!!!”
“Voted 80 times for Hollie!!!”
That is £40 isn't it?
You have got to be joking
Oh I'm a moron! I've been dialing 23 instead of 32 all this time! 
No wonder they tell you to dial carefully!
No wonder they tell you to dial carefully!
Blimey, a terrific final but we're already lining up claims of fix. 
Why do we always succeed in ruining the fun?
Why do we always succeed in ruining the fun?
Originally Posted by Hotgossip:
“I voted for SB and got through first time, likewise Stavros but tried to vote for Shaheen and kept getting recorded "line busy" message.”
“I voted for SB and got through first time, likewise Stavros but tried to vote for Shaheen and kept getting recorded "line busy" message.”
WHY vote for 3 acts,
Originally Posted by OathBreaker:
“Will ITV EVER learn..”
“Will ITV EVER learn..”
Learn what? To stop being constrained by the physical capabilities of the telephone network?
Oh thats good, if the lines are busy it means all the conspiracy threads can start when peoples favourites dont win!!
Before the conspiracy threads start I would like it noting that I am a telecoms engineer and if you can't get through to a line it's NOT a conspiracy, it's congestion!
Each number has a maximum load which is NOT balanced - ie, you'll struggle to get through tot the hot favourite but the rank outsider voter will have no problems.
This does in effect mean that BT/ITV won't register as many votes as if the maximum load had been higher (an almost physical impossibility with the surge of callers.) However, the person with the most attempted votes will always have the most actual votes too as every time a channel becomes free to accept the vote it will (almost per-second if people are calling non-stop). Whereas with an outsider there will be a wait period between votes, despite the 'success rate' of callers being 100%.
It's somewhat hard to explain but as long as the lines have an equal max load (which I'm sure they do, given ITVs past with OFCOM!) the person with the most votes will have gotten the max any of the lines could handle in that hour - so even if 10% of callers failed to get through, they would still win - because the callers only failed to get through because the channel was in-use for a successful vote.
Each number has a maximum load which is NOT balanced - ie, you'll struggle to get through tot the hot favourite but the rank outsider voter will have no problems.
This does in effect mean that BT/ITV won't register as many votes as if the maximum load had been higher (an almost physical impossibility with the surge of callers.) However, the person with the most attempted votes will always have the most actual votes too as every time a channel becomes free to accept the vote it will (almost per-second if people are calling non-stop). Whereas with an outsider there will be a wait period between votes, despite the 'success rate' of callers being 100%.
It's somewhat hard to explain but as long as the lines have an equal max load (which I'm sure they do, given ITVs past with OFCOM!) the person with the most votes will have gotten the max any of the lines could handle in that hour - so even if 10% of callers failed to get through, they would still win - because the callers only failed to get through because the channel was in-use for a successful vote.
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