PUBLIC VOTING: BIG FAILURE - Page 2

Originally posted by: Prestigious

Well said.. I totally agree with you..

SRGMP should either select the best (by expert judges) or the most popular (with public voting its true spirit). They are doing neither and that is where many of us are having complaints.

I am saying the public voting is not really selecting the most popular because multiple voting defeats the purpose (popular choice). If they allow only one vote per mobile phone number then it will give you an idea on who is getting most votes in true sense. With the current method, a contestant can tell 100 of his/her relatives, 200 of his/her friends and 1000s of other well wishers to keep voting for him/her day and night. Yes, it may not be practicle from time and money perspective but that is a real possiblity looking at the amount of money in prizes at stake. So the one who can muster maximun votes this way will be the one to come on the top. Neither his/her overall talent, or the performance on a particular day or popularity would matter. But then what benefits Zee is sheer number of SMSs so why would they care if public voting isn't done in its true spirit. That is why they keep telling us repeatedly that we can vote to as many folks and as many times as we wish. And then keep showing some contestants loosing sleep over defeat etc. to invoke our sympathy so we keep sending even more SMSs to keep our favorites from getting voted out.

With the current method, anyone can come out on the top on any day. (Remember in the second round Nihira and Rajeev both got almost same % votes -- now, now... where is Nihira and where is Rajeev, both in sheer talent and in popularity?) So I won't be surprized if contestants who are both better singers than others as well as the more popular than others are eliminated early. It won't matter to Zee as long as the SMSs keep flowing in.... 1 per mobile or 10,000 per mobile... all is fair....