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04/04/2006 10:23 PM	Alert
I used my Cingular phone for text messaging votes, and the house line for my computer, which used a repeat dialing program. I got about 300 text votes in, but I was disappointed in the phone votes. My computer placed around 600 calls between 9pm and 11pm ET, but only seemed to get through around 100 times. I guess after last week the call volume was way up, but jeez, only 100 votes in 2 hours is disappointing. I think I only got through 5 times in the first 30 minutes. Did anyone else have the same problems getting through? Anyone from NJ/NYC?

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Posted By bcollan on 04/04/2006 10:23 PM I used my Cingular phone for text messaging votes, and the house line for my computer, which used a repeat dialing program. I got about 300 text votes in, but I was disappointed in the phone votes. My computer placed around 600 calls between 9pm and 11pm ET, but only seemed to get through around 100 times. I guess after last week the call volume was way up, but jeez, only 100 votes in 2 hours is disappointing. I think I only got through 5 times in the first 30 minutes. Did anyone else have the same problems getting through? Anyone from NJ/NYC? I was calling from Texas and was only able to get 51 votes through from 8pm-10pm CST. I was very surprised, because I've been getting in 300+ votes in the past weeks, including 350 last week. The phone line was BUSY the entire two hours-- which I only hope is a good thing, hoping that means she was definitely getting those votes! (So yes, I was disappointed that I could only get through 51 times tonight, but that's how busy the lines were. I stayed on for the whole 2 hours, hitting redial! Usually the phone line has cleared out by the last hour or half-hour, but tonight IT STAYED BUSY THE WHOLE TIME!) And just for the heck of it, I looked at dialidol.com a few minutes ago-- Katharine is in the top 3 tonight on their site. They have Elliott and Mandisa on bottom.

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04/04/2006 10:32 PM	Alert
OMG this is a gooood sign good work Mcphans!

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04/04/2006 10:32 PM	Alert
I could only get through about 20 times in the first hour, seriously. The second hour, about 85-90 times. That's great news!!! Like you guys said, the last few weeks,I was able to vote 300 times or more. I don't believe our Kat will ever be in the bottom again!

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04/04/2006 10:49 PM	Alert
Well then, this sounds like a giant fly in the AI ointment. It means that all the votes are NOT being fairly counted. Once the phone lines are "saturated" with callers, roughly the same number of votes get counted for each of the top contestants. No wonder the final last year was so close...both groups of fans saturated the lines, so they both got around the same number of votes. What this means also is that Cingular texting can make a BIG difference, since EVERY text vote is counted. So if one contestant has more fans texting their votes, it could put them over the top.

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04/04/2006 10:56 PM	Alert
Posted By bcollan on 04/04/2006 10:49 PM Well then, this sounds like a giant fly in the AI ointment. It means that all the votes are NOT being fairly counted. Once the phone lines are "saturated" with callers, roughly the same number of votes get counted for each of the top contestants. No wonder the final last year was so close...both groups of fans saturated the lines, so they both got around the same number of votes. What this means also is that Cingular texting can make a BIG difference, since EVERY text vote is counted. So if one contestant has more fans texting their votes, it could put them over the top. I agree with everything you just said. It goes back to my question from last week. Where is Cingular more prominent? I wonder if we can vote for a different voting system next year. At least our girl was gorgeous and on point tonight.

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04/04/2006 11:13 PM	Alert
Yeah, I'd like to change the voting system as well, but for now I got in >3x as many votes for Kat using my Cingular text messaging. So we need to convince as many fans as we can to use their Cingular text messaging instead of or in addition to phoning. That's why I posted a thread yesterday about Cingular's offer of UNLIMITED text messages for a month when you sign up for a new text messaging plan. I hate to ask people to spend money (and I know I sound like a Cingular shill), BUT $5.00 isn't much if it helps us get Kat to the finals.

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04/05/2006 8:09 AM	Alert
Bill - I'm starting to think you work for Cingular.....Just kidding.. I agree....any Cingular cell owners might want to consider the plan you referred to for Text Messaging. I voted for 2 straight hours and was in the same boat as Leah...I probably got around 45 - 50 votes in. I didn't keep count after I got the first 10 or so through. What's DIALIDOL.com? Do they just speculate on the vote counts?

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04/05/2006 8:38 AM	Alert
DialIdol has Katharine second only to Taylor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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04/05/2006 9:17 AM	Alert
Posted By slice on 04/05/2006 8:09 AM What's DIALIDOL.com? Do they just speculate on the vote counts? Dialidol.com provides free AI dialing software which reports back to them the number of busy signals and the number of votes accepted. They use this feedback to report weekly voting results. I wouldn't recommend using their software because they control the numbers dialed. You only get to specify which contestants you want safe, or which ones you want eliminated. So they control your phone, and you don't really know what its dialing.

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04/05/2006 10:55 AM	Alert
Wow, I didn't know DialIdol did that. No, I wouldn't trust that at all.

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04/05/2006 12:04 PM	Alert
Dialidol.com provides free AI dialing software which reports back to them the number of busy signals and the number of votes accepted. They use this feedback to report weekly voting results. I wouldn't recommend using their software because they control the numbers dialed. You only get to specify which contestants you want safe, or which ones you want eliminated. So they control your phone, and you don't really know what its dialing. Bill - maybe you or Chad should post a sticky (or whatever you call it) on the Forum main page regarding this issue?!? Just as an FYI to the members. Thanks for the explanation. I'll stick to the land line I have at the house.

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04/05/2006 2:19 PM	Alert
I got in about 100 on my cell.

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04/05/2006 3:23 PM	Alert
I got in 85 votes in the two hour period. The phone lines were completely busy. I did get in eight votes from eight fifty-five to nine o'clock, Elliot was singing while I was voting!!!

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04/05/2006 6:56 PM	Alert
I got home about 10:30 pm eastern last night, after coming back from the Nets game. I watched Katharine's performance, and then voted 61 times in a half an hour.

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