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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: CBS Popularity Poll: Archive through August 21, 2003

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
GRRR .... I just saw that, too, R151. I have the childish urge to white-out Ali's face in that second-place spot, and draw Erika back in there.

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 03:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OHHH... they also just updated the weekly results, the graph thing. Alison jumped from 3.6 to 7.7 -- LOL, the graph looks ridiculous, Ali has this huge spike.

Cyberjoecool

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 07:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"Why would CBS or the designers for the website rig the voting for Ali??..."

Just a wild thought on my part...I have a funny feeling very soon BB might be telling the house guests who are the most popular via the cbs website. Perhaps they want Alison to be encouraged to continue acting the way she is acting and avoid discouraging her anymore like the bedmate comment from Julie Chen did last week.

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 07:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, I hadn't thought of that Cyber -- I HOPE that doesn't happen. I'm more inclined to believe that this isn't the work of CBS, but of same crazed Ali fan (because, well, you'd have to be crazy to be a fan of hers ... LOL, just kidding, don't send nasty notes).

Pengoh

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 07:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I filled out their feedback form about it but they probably don't care anyway because it means more traffic to their site and probably more sponsors.

Kaili

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 07:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I voted about 20 times, giving Ali a 1 and the rest a 10. Not that it will make a difference anyway...

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I did lots of "1" voting for Ali, too, Kaili ... in fact, I've been doing that since Sunday, and my guess is that there are others doing it, but it has had absolutely no effect.

Jpgramma

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I too have been over there giving Ali lots of 1 votes, and Erika and Jack 10's. sigh. Last look, Ali was ahead of Erika and the cum chart looks down right silly, with that huge spike for Ali.

I asked the following question in quick Q&A thread, but it was quickly buried. I'll try again here, since it's somewhat related:

I have a question for someone who taped the show. Can you tell me the order in which the names disapeared on the AC plama screen? I think I noticed that the last 3 were Jack, Erika and Robert, and then Jack's name disappeared leaving Erika's and Roberts, til it was Robert's name alone.
I'm thinking they may have been erased from the screen in the order of how many votes they got. Would really like to know the whole order, particualrly if Ally's name was the first one to be erased.

Kaili

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll check for ya, but it may take a few minutes...

Kaili

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay- the order was this...
Justin
Jun
Jack
Alison
Jee
Erika
Then Robert's name gets big.

Jpgramma

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Kaili. Much appreciated.

I suppose it IS possible that that's the order of the number of votes they got. It's an order that makes sense.

Viewers knew how much Jee's GF means to him and as for Alison, I suppose there were plenty of viewers who wanted to see Ali get a 'dear John' letter from her Donny that told her to get lost. lol

R151996

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
On Ali and popularity---

One "10" vote for Ali by Arnie probably offsets all of the "1" votes anyone else gives her, LOL.

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ali just did a gigantic leap frog into first place in the popularity polls ... she's now at 8.3. That may be the highest rating I've ever seen a HG get (on all 4 Big Brothers).

Closetfan

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one pissed about someone loading votes for Ali. NO FREAKING WAY is that real!!

I keep giving her one's too. sigh!

Wendo

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang, she's up to 77%! I've never seen such a spike. (I admit though, I vote for Ali on occassion. She's my love to hate HG's this year. I enjoy watching her machinations. LOL!)

Closetfan

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Jason on BB3 had the highest rating ever...and that was real.

Philamon - Can you son rig something up to counteract whoever is stuffing the ballot for Ali? It's disgusting.

Philamom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Closetfan, I actually asked my son if he could rig something that would give Ali multiple "1" votes. He just gave me a look ... it spoke volumes. The look said "Yeah, I'm gonna waste my time making a program for something as inconsequential as this. Get a life, mom."

In other words, he's not a BB fan.

I wish I knew how to do it. There has to be someone out there who can do it ... where's all the computer wizards?

Closetfan

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL! Thanks for asking him, Philamom! It's going to take me all night to do this manually! :-) She is down to 8.0 now though! Yay!! Maybe the 'real world' is taking a moment to vote and knocking her back down where she belongs. sigh.

Closetfan

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoop!! Jack and Erika #1 and #2! THAT I believe...

Gina8642

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 10:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL - Alison's popularity boost is pretty funny. It is so obviously fake. I may not always agree with where people are rated, but I can at least understand it, but Alson's suddenly spiking? She's done zip in the past week to endear herself to anyone. I guess these votbot things really work, huh? I don't know why I ever bother with these polls...

For instance - While I may not like it, I would understand if Robert's ratings spiked up after the tear jerker segment with his daughter.

Nexell2

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 10:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's called a web or voting bott. Not suppose to use it but very easy to adjust results if you know how.

Watcher

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I, too, suspect the poll to be fake...and not the work of CBS...but a program someone has set up to stuff the ballots, so to speak i.e. a voting bott, as mentioned.

There is no way I believe Ali's popularity poll to be real at this point.

Watching her on the live feeds this week has made me like her less with each passing day. If anything, she was annoying to watch, to say the very least.

JMHO, of course....maybe I'm wrong.

Mich

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i think that if the polls are at all close to reality then alison's votes could be from the young guys that are into "girls like her"

Gina8642

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mich - while I agree there are guys that would be 'into' Alison - I don't believe that tons and tons of them suddenly decided to start voting in the past week

Oscrapit

Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 04:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Philamom reported yesterday at 8:26 pm that Alison was at 8.3. This morning she's at 6.9. That seems like a really big jump for less than 12 hours--even discounting how many times I've given her a 1 vote!