Ben,

That's exactly why it would be stupid for Ourstage, in my opinion, to ever post judging totals. From genre to genre the totals are way different. It's not always based on the number of entries either. Some categories, including the small ones, get judged a lot, so categories, including the biggest ones, get judged very little. In fact, I think there are cases where the smaller the entries, the more judging takes place because when artists vote, they can get their own songs up far more often and thus stay with it longer.

Jim: It's easy to explain what happened to you. You know where people are whining about the same songs coming up over and over when they judge? Well.. if that happens to all songs at different times during voting, that means your song could finally have come up a lot of times in a row and didn't do so well. Other times songs suddenly move way up for the same reason. That seems like a pretty simple explanation to me.

I spoke with Danny again tonight about this. He's going to talk to the tech people once again to make sure exactly what people are seeing so we can solve this once and for all. But in the end, if I were him, I would NEVER show the number of times each song had been judged. It just opens the door for unhappy people to complain and also to give competitors more info than they need.

Brian

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