Over 15 Million People Voted!

[PlatypusBen]

Sure it's not the 30 million that shows like American Idol get but still 15 MILLION PEOPLE voted for Big Brother All Stars!

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[Vidiette]

Not to be a buzzkill, but over 15 million votes were cast. Not quite the same thing as 15 million people voting.

It's late and the feeds aren't on yet (I was bored) so I did the math and it goes like this:

My auto-clicker was set for every 3 seconds for 5 (?) days. That's 20 times per minute, or 1,200 votes per hour. This amounts to 28,800 votes per day. Even if I knock off a day for the few hours when I was using my computer for other activities or in case my memory is faulty, I still come up with 115,200 votes that I alone am responsible for.

I am sure that CBS does this on purpose to confuse their advertisers.

Okay, I'm stepping away from the blackboard now

[PlatypusBen]

You know that the auto-clicker votes DIDN'T COUNT

The 'Big Brother' series is no stranger to controversy and another erupted during the voting when it was discovered that some fans were using "auto voters" to flood the CBS site. According to Grodner, CBS had anticipated such monkey business and already had a process in place to discount the votes as quickly as they were coming in.

"We know how savvy our fans are. There wasn't a problem. It was actually fun to watch. We saw how many votes were being generated by these bots. Rest assured they did not count," Grodner told Jam! Showbiz. "Ultimately, there was a specific amount of votes that each IP address could send each day. You were allowed to return to the site every day and vote. To prevent the hacking and the auto voters from being able to be used, the number of votes that were allowed could not be released in order to prevent these extra votes from counting."

[Vidiette]

Clearly, I did not know that the auto votes didn't count. Thanks for the info. Can you provide the link for this interview?? please??? would love to read it.

[Vidiette]

... or if not the link, then the name of the site or interviewer?

[Vidiette]

Well, I guess I should have just run my own search rather than ask someone else to do it..

Here is the link, in case anyone else is interested.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/...671050-ca.html

I had never heard of Jam! before this, but it appears to be as legitimate as anything else on the net.