To vote or not to vote-what is the basis - Page 3

Originally posted by: Jazzzy

first of all, i think all final 4 contestants deserve to be on the show but what I'm trying to say is that they should be performing consistently at their "peak" level. they should be giving perfomances now that would be counted in their top five perfomances, and they should not sing medicorely on one day and then brilliantly the other day.

But don't you think that is rather unrealistic......they are humans not machines...

I am sure they all come on stage thinking they will give their best........but sometime it does not happen.....

surely you don't think that would make them not-so-good-singer.

Even the best have good and bad days.......think Sachin!!

Originally posted by: Jazzzy

first of all, i think all final 4 contestants deserve to be on the show but what I'm trying to say is that they should be performing consistently at their "peak" level. they should be giving perfomances now that would be counted in their top five perfomances, and they should not sing medicorely on one day and then brilliantly the other day.

Totally agree. At this stage each of their performances should be top class. But at times destiny also plays a villain and this week Poonam faced that. Her performance was bad just cause of the throat issue.

Junaid before has suffered this too. Now who can help such hard luck..?

Having said that I feel this week surely did not rate as anybosy's top perfromance.,.. I wish to see much better performances from all of them...

Originally posted by: advil

Totally agree. At this stage each of their performances should be top class. But at times destiny also plays a villain and this week Poonam faced that. Her performance was bad just cause of the throat issue.

Junaid before has suffered this too. Now who can help such hard luck..?

Just like bad hair day...bad luck day....you can also have bad voice day......na??😆

Originally posted by: Iloveapu

Just like bad hair day...bad luck day....you can also have bad voice day......na??😆

Well I have personally had a case of bad voice day when I was to have a very important international conference call and my voice refused to let out anything legible....lucky I had my boss to take take over the talking part while I jotted down the points...😳

But that then is in corporate world where you can make adjustments to meet the requirements, but here in a cutthroat competition between the best talents, a bad voice day can prove to be very very costly......

Originally posted by: trishanku3

Vote only if it is FREE😉

They taught us in India....free for all and all for free.....

They taught us here in US nothing comes for free.....

Now I am confused........😆

Reality shows with public voting are popularity contests, nothing more, nothing less.

They capture not only how much public support is out there for a contestant, in terms of number of people, but how strongly the fanbase supports that contestant (i.e. how strongly they vote).

The voting results, as far as I can tell, are a combination of several factors:

-viewer sentiment for contestant's backstory, hometown, personality, looks, etc. People love a good underdog story-it just depends on who they see as the underdog.

-attachment level - even if some contestant's have a performance that is not up to their usual ability, if a contestant is able to keep fans rooting for them through thick and thin, something has made a mark - whether it be how much that contestant's singing is adored in general, things based on viewer sentiment, or a combination of both.

-how things are hyped on the show (e.g. HR and his comments for Aneek vs. his comments for Raja)

-which in turn affects how aggressive the mobilization and/or general voting strategy is across each fanbase, and this changes weekly. If a certain aspect is hyped more than everything else (e.g. Aneek vs. Raja), viewers on both sides of the controversy get worried that the other side is getting votes they shouldn't be getting based on viewer sentiment. They get worried their favorite will get voted out unfairly because of this, it is only human nature....many fans on both sides probably start voting more aggressively than they already were. Things of that nature.

-that week's performances (interpretation of which is influenced by judges comments, but is still highly subjective and open to viewer interpretation and biases)

-accessibility of voting/television in areas where a contestant may have stronger support or stronger chance of getting it, based on viewer sentiment.

-girls as a whole get less votes than boys and get eliminated out sooner. Which is partly a problem with the audience's voting tendencies. The other part goes back to the issue of the way things are hyped on the show, and how that plays on voter tendencies.

-Zee perhaps doing fuzzy maths with the voting, losing votes here, finding votes there, to suit their purposes. Even with this potential voter fraud, though, I suspect there still have to be enough votes coming in all along for all the top 5 to have made it that far, in order for fuzzy margins not to have gotten them out earlier, and in order for Zee to even want to keep these contestants around. It is not in Zee's financial interests to have kept any of the top five in the running that long if they were not generating enough audience interest.

There are some other factors, too, but those are the biggies.

In normal times, I would vote on the basis of the quality of singing in the previous week (if I vote). Nothing but singing - I won't even care for dancing and performance etc.

In abnormal times, I would be forced to vote on the basis of the mentor's behaviour. A mentor who harasses contestants, behaves obnoxiously and regards himself as God's gift to mankind (when actually he is nothing but an unadulterated curse), will get nothing but disrespect from me.

Originally posted by: Jaadoogar

I think it is easy to select a contest who deserve my votes now.... After watching all contestants for so many weeks, I will vote to save the best contestant... In the early stages of voting round one can vote based on weekly performance but this is time one should vote for the best contestant, their hard word for all these weeks should not be ruined for just one off day...
It will be really painful if Poonam will have to leave due to one bad week... It was the worst Saturday of Poonam due to bad throat but still her first performance was above average...

👏 ditto

In our zest to keep our favorites in we end up doing injustice to those who really deserved to be in. While trying to keep our favorites in, we do the biggest injustice to the ones who have consistently given good performances really deserved to be in the top.

I hope I am proven wrong, but I have this uncanny feeling that we will see the glimpse of that this week, while to try to save some others...