02/25 - Two quick things that irritate me..

Two things REALLY bother me...

1) Vote for the Worst
The fact that this gets any credibility is amazing to me. I really don't understand how a website that so often picks a popular contestant, then decides they are a joke, and then takes credit when they stay. Right now they are supporting Danny. A few things...Danny sings WELL. This horrible performance this week was basically his first bad performance. Is the joke that he's so feminine? I don't get it. He sings well, he's popular, and he's clearly a favorite to go forward. So, VOTW supports him because he sucks? I don't think he sucks, and I don't think he's a joke, and when he goes forward it will have nothing to do with negative votes.

Remember people, there pick for worst way back was CARRIE UNDERWOOD. Yes, VOTW supported Carrie and took credit when she won. She was a clear, huge favorite, clearly did not suck (even if you don't like her she's not bad at all) but by their logic, VOTW kept her in the show.

A lot of us try to make money getting people to click on ads and such on the internet, and we all know, it doesn't work at a high percentage. Even when you have a product people want, it's a fight to get them to click on something. So, we are supposed to believe MILLIONS (cause that's what it would take to push the bar) of people call multiple times (have to get through) on something to be sarcastic?

It doesn't work.

2) Dial-Idol

Dial Idol, the predicting service which uses busy signals to predict which person will leave was so incredibly inaccurate last season, even by their own lax standards, that I don't want to hear anyone say it's good at predicting.

Last week, Dial Idol predicted that all the men could possibly be eliminated and all of the women except Ramiele could be eliminated. Since Ramiele was not eliminated (THE SHOCK) Dial Idol was 100% accurate.

This is akin to me showing my psychic ability by pointing out tommorrow will be raining, or sunny, or snowing, or cloudy, or some combination of the listed.

And even with this incredibly huge margin of error, last year Dial Idol had some weeks where they were 100% wrong, the entire bottom three was their safe three, etc.

They were fun once upon a time but a service that exists to predict results and can't isn't very useful.

JUAN