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If I hear two really bad songs, I usually vote draw. Why give either song a boost if they suck? I bet some feel the same about 2 songs that are really good. The odd thing that has happened in my judging is I rarely get one of the very best songs against one of the very worst songs. It's usually one of the best against another of the best or 2 of the worst.
Jim, are there any songs better than your UNDER your ranking? If so, then you have to say it balances out. I do know that a JPF member, Bob Sima, is all the way up to number 10 in the rankings and he only posted 2 days ago. It will be interesting to see if someone who enters that late can hold onto a top 20 spot. That would certainly suggest that you can enter any time and still make the top 20. I am the most surprised by the fall of Juliana's song so quickly after spending the whole month in the top 5. It seems odd that 1 day of voting could drop a top song all the way down into the 40's and that people suddenly and overwhemlingly started to vote against it, unless it's people trying to trash the top ranked songs on purpose.
Brian
Brian I am sorry to disagree with you yet again. I am not talking a few dozen places I am talking hundreds. You judge for yourself. Either I am way off beam here or there is a problem with the voting system when same is allowed. I suspect that the draw, to which you freely admit voting for, has a lot to do with bad placings. Think about it, if a whole stack are voted same same same then a heelava lot of song places are wrong especially in a large entry pool. I wish people would be honest and say that one song even marginally was better or worse than another. Or do only the really good songs count for anything. This practice of voting the same makes a mockery of the minor places and whole concept of the site. Everybody wants to see how accurately there offering is compared to others. It can be a great learning tool. But not if people do not vote fairly. (Edit) In the last two hours my song has dropped over two hundred places. That defies any logic except PERHAPS that all of a sudden a vote cast as anything other than same has had a devastating effect. I checked the first 10 songs and there has been a few changes as well. Some of these songs are in no way deserving a top ten place regardless of what method of voting is used. My forty years in the business tells me that. I have judged nearly two thousand battles and have heard most if not all of the songs. I know the difference between good and bad.
Last edited by BIG JIM MERRILEES; 04/23/0809:07 PM.
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