Yes Everett our complaints seem to be falling on deaf ears. If they produced stats to show how the voting works and how many people have voted it might help. I am sure that tactical voting is rife.
On the positive Ourstage is a great idea and a good place to promote yourself however I would not put too much faith in the accuracy or legitimacy of any chart positions. The voting system needs a rethink. It is impossible to vote a whole set of head to heads in the first round so how can so many partial opinions be put together to form an accurate overall picture. Theoretically I think it is flawed. Random battles produce random results. I decided to vote this month and judged 278 fourway battles. There were still songs I had not had a chance to vote for even once. Whilst others appeared many times. My own song did appear a couple of times but was pitched against songs that were hundreds of places lower. I deduce that randomly voting that this song is better than that proves nothing in the grand scheme of things especially when a full set from each voter cannot be put into the equation.

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