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I have found it rather presumptive (and sometimes risky) to assume the status quo, especially when previous announcements that most are used to hearing over many years (verbal & on-screen) no longer appear AND the cost of the call has mysteriously nearly halved.
I've never voted, so it's never been of interest to me. Before knowing the situation, I did notice the 15p thing, and I did vaguely notice the absence of the CiN advert, but they didn't really register that much with me. So I think it's understandable that people got confused generally, especially at the start. |
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Or the number of significant things that no longer appear (visually, aurally) should of course do that itself.
Quite. ![]() Referring to the BBC Guidelines for phone-ins is OK for people who are comfortable with official legalistic statements. I think a larger number of people are likely to find their eyes glazing over as they attempt to read the guidelines and then they will ask questions like: 1. Why doesn't the BBC fix the phone-voting system so that there are no more scandals? and 2. Why is the BBC being so mean? I suspect the answer to Q1 is that it is impossible to make the phone-voting system perfect. Things will go wrong even in a system that is run with complete honesty - technical failures and human errors can happen. The BBC wants to have no responsibility for the phone-voting system - it's a big enough responsibility making sure that the correct phone numbers and then the correct results are given. (Remember 17 March 2007 when Terry Wogan announced the wrong winner of the phone-vote for who would represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. Fearne Cotton had to frantically correct him.) As for Q2, the BBC is not being deliberately mean. |
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1. Why doesn't the BBC fix the phone-voting system so that there are no more scandals?
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Now that's a very good question - and the answer is, the new guidelines don't fix the problem, they simply remove the whole system. So there's an element of throwing the baby out with the bathwater there.
However, that discussion would be taking this thread way OT for this (SCD) forum and this thread in particular.
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