I posted previously in another thread about how some of the fun soap awards (IS, etc) seem to have an equally fun voting system. Well the current NTA poll seems to be following this trend too. Voters can vote up to six times for one phone number and have one online vote for each email address. No registration is needed and there seem to be inadequate validity checks for votes online. There was a recent post in this thread about this issue about a twitter claim about multiple votes for Danny Dyer (EastEnders):
I haven't seen this original tweet on Twitter, so I'll just have to assume for now that this statement is true. If so, then this is more evidence for my point that some of the fun awards have fun voting systems which are open to mis-use and the results from these aren't worth much really, so whoever wins the award has a dubious and hollow victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by alcapo11
I reckon that the public gets what the public wants in these polls. These polls are really meant to be for a laugh, aren't they? It really seems to me that some people take these polls and awards to mean far more than they are worth when their fave wins, or they are really sore when their fave doesn't. There is clear evidence that the voting system for at least some soap award polls are open to voter mis-use. This is not in any way the fault of whichever actor wins, however, of course, so to these "winners" I wish them well for their award but, for me anyway, this is a hollow and shallow victory as a result of seemingly badly mismanaged award voting systems. Maybe the person who got voted "Best Actor" sometime in the past really got voted as the "Actor with the largest number of obsessed, badly-focussed and craziest fans..?"
I really do think that some posters here on soapboards really need to learn to make or take a joke when given the chance. Believe me, in my experience, it is really much harder to make people happy than to make them otherwise. Some posters here on soapboards really need to lighten up and make us all smile, at least since in a while.
I post about every character on Emmerdale and I really try to do it on an impartial basis. I give every character a fair chance and try to reflect what each one does on TV. I do realise that the actors have maybe little or no say about what they have to do to get paid and keep their jobs. But when someone is hired as "the villain" and is paid well to do the job, then why should anyone be surprised when someone like me reacts and says "I don't like that character"? I really don't feel badly about this as I am clearly meant to feel this way about this character. Mike Parr does what he paid to do. But I still dislike lowlife Ross Barton, however, just as I am completely meant to do, it seems... So does Ross Barton/Mike Parr get my vote? The answer to this is a really big no. Ross Barton is just a completely horrible guy for me, as he is just a total misfit in Emmerdale and will never be a success in life whilst he stays there, as far as I can see anyway. Ross Barton right now, to me anyway, is a complete joke. He will probably end up living with his Mum, begging for his garage job from Cain, probably being a dog for dodgy stuff for Charity when she gets out of jail, and have awful storylines beyond this. Ross Barton really needs to leave Emmerdale and use the most of his temporary good looks and "youth" whilst he can, I reckon. For now, Ross Barton is, for me anyway, a terribly tragic guy, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. IMHO, there is really no clear place for Ross Barton to fit into Emmerdale in the near future or even beyond?
