[QUOTE=Girl Next Door]
… American Idol reserves the right to discount votes they deem to have been generated by power-dialing apps.
Is this new?
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Nope…that disclaimer has been there for a couple of years now. Not really sure how they could enforce that, however.
yellowval, I love the way you think! And I agree that only Miss Ross was better than poor wee Sanjaya this week.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Nope…that disclaimer has been there for a couple of years now. Not really sure how they could enforce that, however.
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Not sure they could prove anything, but it would save the record company the pain of having to produce the likes of Sanjaya MacNichol.
What was that crap they mentioned about Diana Ross being voted Entertainer of the Century? By who? The Diana Ross fan club?
I could think of at least 50 performers who could be considered “Entertainer of the Century” and Diana Ross wouldn’t be one of them. Elton John, Madonna, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Cher, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel…
[QUOTE=lissener]
Anyway, she brought some demo discs of her daughter, whose name I forget, and man this chick was hot! She musta had a bad day in Hollywood, because she’s ten times the performer Sanjaya is. She’da been a real contender at this point, if she’d made it past the Hollywood round. She reminded me a LOT of Nikka Costa; so much so that I thought she was something of a Nikka Costa clone. But her mom swore she’d never heard of Nikka Costa. So, she was a liar on top of being an annoying attention whore.
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Every time they show Sanjaya’s family, I feverently hope they show the smoking hot sister. Absolutely amazing, and I wish she’d have made it at least to the 12.
[QUOTE=rockle]
yellowval, I love the way you think! And I agree that only Miss Ross was better than poor wee Sanjaya this week.
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Why, thank you. And right back atcha, by the way!
[QUOTE=Hampshire]
What was that crap they mentioned about Diana Ross being voted Entertainer of the Century? By who? The Diana Ross fan club?
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Billboard Magazine.
[QUOTE=Sam Stone]
The problem with the Dialidol system is that the group of people who use it are not a random cross-section of viewers. They’re people who use the internet a lot and who are savvy enough to install a program like that and use it. So it probably best reflects the choices of college students and young adults, who make up only a small part of the audience. I think it’s fair to say that the opinions of the 54 year old men and women is not really represented by the Dialidol scores.
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When I first heard of the concept, I assumed that what they were doing was dialing from the DialIdol computer itself. I thought they were dialing the numbers constantly and repeatedly in sequence, tabulating the busy signals compared to the ring tones. Couldn’t it be done that way?
[QUOTE=Iggins]
Every time they show Sanjaya’s family, I feverently hope they show the smoking hot sister. Absolutely amazing, and I wish she’d have made it at least to the 12.
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Me too! She was a babe.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
When I first heard of the concept, I assumed that what they were doing was dialing from the DialIdol computer itself. I thought they were dialing the numbers constantly and repeatedly in sequence, tabulating the busy signals compared to the ring tones. Couldn’t it be done that way?
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The second half of your post is correct – they tabulate busy signals vs. connected phone calls. However, it’s not just the folks at DialIdol doing this.
While dialidol.com is the web site, DialIdol is a program that you can download and set up to powerdial for your favorites. The program tracks the busy signals vs. connections, and sends that info back to dialidol.com for tabulation.
[QUOTE=McNew]
Me too! She was a babe.
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Yeah, I was hoping she sang better because she was the total package.
[QUOTE=gigi]
Yeah, I was hoping she sang better because she was the total package.
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A few weeks ago I remember being mildly glad that Sanjaya was chosen over the sister. I got a distinct and chilly princess vibe off her.
Eh, I’d still take pedi-cab girl, roller skate girl, pretty black teenage boy or Che Guevara over either of them.
[QUOTE=koeeoaddi]
A few weeks ago I remember being mildly glad that Sanjaya was chosen over the sister. I got a distinct and chilly princess vibe off her.
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True. Sanjaya gives off a much warmer princess vibe.
Surprised to hear his mom’s a housekeeper; they struck me as very upper-middle or wealthy in demeanor.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
The second half of your post is correct – they tabulate busy signals vs. connected phone calls. However, it’s not just the folks at DialIdol doing this.
While dialidol.com is the web site, DialIdol is a program that you can download and set up to powerdial for your favorites. The program tracks the busy signals vs. connections, and sends that info back to dialidol.com for tabulation.
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Right. But if you’ll check my post, I was actually asking whether it would work better the way I described.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Billboard Magazine.
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IIRC, she was one of like 100 on that list, no?
I just saw a blurb on Inside Edition that Howard Stern is encouraging people to vote for Sanjaya to shake up the show, like he was the first one to think of it. Real original Howard. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Right. But if you’ll check my post, I was actually asking whether it would work better the way I described.
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Ah, gotcha. In that case, If they’re doing it on their own I don’t think they could put together a large enough sample to be accurate (although they’re not exactly accurate at the moment anyway).
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Phil Stacey (anybody seen his wedding day pic incidentally?)
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It would seem you’re not the only one to notice this. From today’s Yahoo Buzz Index:
#1 Mover Of The Day – Nosferatu – Up 2037%
Can’t be a coincidence, can it? 
