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Jay McGuiness and Aliona Vilani appreciation thread - Part 6 |
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Guys there's no point even trying anymore just had a quick look and apparently were down by 10%?!?!!!?!!! And poldark is up by 10%?!?!!!? I think I'm done no point giving my time to this rigged voting system such a petty Jay really did deserve that win always scum around nowadays I guess.. Anyways going bed night night
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It's a bleary-eyed bedtime for me, I'm afraid.....
Poll stands at 39.07% at the time of writing....... Keep voting guys ![]() Night all x |
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I just started voting again and at every vote it dropped back - some kind soul has fixed it to do that methinks.
Just been back and it's definitely been rigged. Charming. Will try again tomorrow and hope the RT pick up on it by then. As BB said, when I vote the %age drops with monotonous regularity after 10 votes. There are vote bots that can be programmed to do just that. For every vote applied to one pollster 10 can be applied to the opposition pollster for example. If normal voting occurs one would expect to see irregular changes both up and down. BB your point about a note stating Suspicious Activity was noted was interesting. I didn't see that. |
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It's decreasing for me at about every tenth vote. Definitely rigged. It's a bit blatant to say the least.
This morning when I was trying to vote a message popped up that there was 'suspicious activity' on the poll, but I guess they weren't smart enough to stop it. Previously it seemed set to kick in at about 38 percent. |
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So, two sets of fans needed to defeat J? Nice.
![]() Why would the Outlander fans even care? And what is Outlander even? ![]() I think it is a stupid poll anyway as it isn't comparing like for like! However, I have done my bit and voted as much as I can. |
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Poll back to 35% but Jayites never give in! Let's keep those digits working!! ☝
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Morning folks, just voted again but it's down to 36.49 now. Went down from 36.53 to 36.52 while I was voting, then dropped to 36.50 in my minute of being locked out. ![]() Quote:
It's decreasing for me at about every tenth vote. Definitely rigged. It's a bit blatant to say the least.
This morning when I was trying to vote a message popped up that there was 'suspicious activity' on the poll, but I guess they weren't smart enough to stop it. Previously it seemed set to kick in at about 38 percent. Disappointing way to start the weekend, but there are a lot worse things happening in the world to get angry about. We didn't think J would get past this round, but I do wish it could have happened fairly.
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Sorry to shout but PLEASE IF YOU GET THIS SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY ON THE POLL MESSAGE - PLEASE SCREEN SHOT IT AND TWEET IT TO RADIO TIMES
we can then all retweet it to them to shame them into doing something about the cheating? |
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Interesting. It took nearly 40 votes before either total moved. I left it a few minutes, then J jumped up, so I carried on, and it very quickly dropped back so I stopped. There's definitely something going on.
Not on twitter. |
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Sorry to shout but PLEASE IF YOU GET THIS SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY ON THE POLL MESSAGE - PLEASE SCREEN SHOT IT AND TWEET IT TO RADIO TIMES
we can then all retweet it to them to shame them into doing something about the cheating? |
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Going down....
Just tried again. No movement on either for 27 votes, then dropped back one on J and went up one on aidan. Same pattern.
Immediate.co.uk seems to be who deals with complaints if you want to tweet |
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Wonder who Max's publicist is , I think Damien needs to take note!
I know the Sun isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Max has a prime position article in their music column today.... https://flic.kr/p/Kdewsb |
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Just tried again. No movement on either for 27 votes, then dropped back one on J and went up one on aidan. Same pattern.
Immediate.co.uk seems to be who deals with complaints if you want to tweet Me, I preferred the original Poldark. I hate it when they remake a classic. If it ain't broke, don't fix it........take note Ghostbusters, Porridge, Total Recall et all I will flounce big time if they ever remake Dirty Dancing, PrettyWoman, Ghost..... |
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Wonder who Max's publicist is , I think Damien needs to take note!
I know the Sun isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Max has a prime position article in their music column today.... https://flic.kr/p/Kdewsb |
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They won't do anything. The whole thing has been a huge con to get clicks on their website and advertising revenue. They want Poldark to win as its a BBC programme and is starting again soon.
Me, I preferred the original Poldark. I hate it when they remake a classic. If it ain't broke, don't fix it........take note Ghostbusters, Porridge, Total Recall et all I will flounce big time if they ever remake Dirty Dancing, PrettyWoman, Ghost..... |
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I was tapping away during Masterchef and the news too. Thanks for the good wishes and hope you're well too, danceagogo xx
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Yes, but all that chest hair...ewwgh...yuk!
Night, night Cat, off to bed myself as well. OT Oh God, Marc Almond is now killing Starman - I've had enough of this Quote:
Lovely way of describing it - 'meeting someone who dances the same language'.
Think you've hit on the truth there fatskia (sorry, had to edit your Smilies a bit). Have voted , but it does look odd. A dance off would be better Of Lola loved, loved your post about horrible gurning. - brilliant! Agree TT and others, hope Strictly doesn't go too far from its ballroom roots, but please not too much gurning. Was watching a programme about Swan Lake - and the dancers do project emotion, but they don't gurn. J and A definitely projected emotion Wonder why gurning developed in ballroom? Agree too about ballroom dancers being slim, but not over thin. Isih Thank you for your hard work on the Jobs for J and dictionary Agree with Korky and Hannah to put your lists on here rather than Dropbox. Sometimes have trouble with Dropbox and I miss all sorts ![]() Just a suggestion - if you can time it right, and it fits in with your RL, maybe start adding the lists at page 200, so it's easy to find in the future? Only if it works for you though. Managed to time posting everything to do with the Jaliona Review on page 100, but it was as much luck as judgement Thanks BB and Korky and others for poems, rhymes, haiku and to DD for compilation *Waves* to TsuntsuBird and congratulations to LazySusan Night night all fatskia gets it right, doesn't he? Good idea for page 200 - I will do the final polishing and be poised (assuming not still voting )Quote:
Wonder who Max's publicist is , I think Damien needs to take note!
I know the Sun isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Max has a prime position article in their music column today.... https://flic.kr/p/Kdewsb ![]() Quote:
Oh yes, I agree that's probably the case. And they'd cast Gleb in DD....
I suppose without all the TPTB carp he may want to dance properly, which I'm sure he can do. First voting session this morning I managed to move it by 2/10 of a % at great cost to keyboard and mouse. I wonder if they work on 1000000% ![]() ETA went straight back in and those 2/10 have been lost. do you sometimes get the feeling that you're hitting the wrong button? |
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Hmmmm
Just tried again. Figures stayed the same on both while I voted. I stopped as soon as J's moved up one, then waited for 5 mins during which time nothing moved on either. On my first vote for J it dropped back two. I stopped and - guess what - nothing moved!
So whatever it is seems set to respond negatively to J votes as soon as his total moves up. Nice one, cheats, whoever you are... |
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Guys save the energy this isn't going to work if it does it'll be a miracle but since you guys are not giving up I'll carry on voting for the team lol doubt it'll do much
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Just tried again. Figures stayed the same on both while I voted. I stopped as soon as J's moved up one, then waited for 5 mins during which time nothing moved on either. On my first vote for J it dropped back two. I stopped and - guess what - nothing moved!
So whatever it is seems set to respond negatively to J votes as soon as his total moves up. Nice one, cheats, whoever you are... for both protagonists, so you'll only see a percentage change when you click if enough cumulative votes have been cast to increase the total vote by 0.01%. Hope that makes sense, I'm not very good at explaining it ![]() Anyway, like Ano, I'm going to keep voting for J whenever I can.
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What is interesting, or not as the case may be, is the difference in percentage between J and Poldark (they are voting for a fictional character really not the actor
). The votes should in theory be a closer than they are, when the poll showed the number of votes for a brief window, when I looked Alycia had about 50k votes and was miles ahead of anyone else, both J and Poldark had about 15k votes.So the interesting poll will be the final, I think I have accepted the inevitable but I will keep voting to make it seem less of a whitewash, if Poldark triumphs over Alycia then it will just make a complete mockery of the whole thing. Amyway that's my twopenny worth on the subject
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To be honest BB, I think it's just that there are far more Poldark fans than Jay fans voting simultaneously. The only thing I was suspicious about was the two times I saw it drop 4% from 38% to 34% in the space of 1 one my clicks. Apart from those drops, the changes in percentage I have seen are 0.01% or 0.02% at a time, which is consistent with normal voting patterns. I'm sure thousands and thousands of votes have been cast
for both protagonists, so you'll only see a percentage change when you click if enough cumulative votes have been cast to increase the total vote by 0.01%. Hope that makes sense, I'm not very good at explaining it ![]() Anyway, like Ano, I'm going to keep voting for J whenever I can. ![]() I see from the Radio Times twitter that they've been swamped with votes, and as the ratio of leader to runner up seems to be about the same on both polls, it does make me wonder, so I think you may well have a good point there, Lola. Maybe it's my own experiences seeing this kind of thing at work that makes me take it all with a pinch of salt. And it's all so much more sophisticated these days! Remember Jeb Bush? ETA I've just looked again and the position is virtually the same on both. |
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Regrettably won't be voting much today as have ended up with a sooper-dooper migraine. Yuk.
I'm pretty sure there is, or has been, a bot at work on the poll - I noticed the two sudden drops yesterday - but I think the main problem was that the Poldark tribe got into gear quicker than we did and built up a healthy lead at the start. In the end, though, it's a very silly online poll that doesn't reflect at all on a person's true popularity as it depends entirely on monumental multi-voting by us all. It's even more meaningless when one side are predominantly voting for a fictional character. So, basically, not worth getting steamed up about. Preserve your sanity, peeps! ![]() Jay, being Jay, will appreciate more the efforts people make on his behalf than he would winning the blinking poll ETA: Searching on Jay on Twitter at the mo brings up some truly vomitworthy crap about the hairy Poldark. Eugh |
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Regrettably won't be voting much today as have ended up with a sooper-dooper migraine. Yuk.
I'm pretty sure there is, or has been, a bot at work on the poll - I noticed the two sudden drops yesterday - but I think the main problem was that the Poldark tribe got into gear quicker than we did and built up a healthy lead at the start. In the end, though, it's a very silly online poll that doesn't reflect at all on a person's true popularity as it depends entirely on monumental multi-voting by us all. It's even more meaningless when one side are predominantly voting for a fictional character. So, basically, not worth getting steamed up about. Preserve your sanity, peeps! ![]() Jay, being Jay, will appreciate more the efforts people make on his behalf than he would winning the blinking poll |
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You may be right, but that doesn't account for the periods where nothing moves.
The 49 Jay voters neutralise 49 of the Aidan voters, vote-for-vote, so only 1 Aidan voter can make a difference to the score. If the votes are already, say, 642000 for Aidan and 358000 for Jay (not an unreasonable assumpion based on Lola's figures for yesterday), then it will take 90 votes cast by that 1 Aidan voter to make a difference of 0.01%. That voter (God damn him!) will be on his fourth voting round of "25 votes, pause for 1 minute" before the change occurs, if everything else remains the same. Four voting rounds will take approximately 15 minutes, so in this very hypothetical case nothing changes for 15 minutes. Sorry, I've gone all science nerdy , but I can see why the vote doesn't keep changing once a large number of votes have already been cast and there are lots of voters on each side. ![]() Hope I've been able to explain it a bit better this time. Off for some more voting. #TeamJalionaRideOrDie |
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Could I wade into his heart like a snipe
As he is of the ornithological type? Or interest him in a drawing of a rook And show him the contents of my sketchbook? ) Then you could have a very nice chat, Or let him have a peep at your bunting And I don't think there'll be any risk in Your indulging in a little bit of siskin (anag) |
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