{"id":4003,"date":"2011-04-26T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:27:32","slug":"televisionkarens-rants-dancing-with-the-stars-phone-in-lines-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/televisionkarens-rants-dancing-with-the-stars-phone-in-lines-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"TELEVISION\/KAREN'S RANTS: DANCING WITH THE STARS PHONE-IN LINES PROBLEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

DANCING WITH THE STARS<\/em> PHONE-IN LINES PROBLEM<\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to call everyone\u2019s attention to this problem with the Dancing With The Stars<\/em> call-in system all season, but another topic for the day\u2019s column always came up. It pissed me off even more last night, so I just had to make the space to tell you about it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The whole system is stupid to begin with–they let you vote during<\/em> the show! That means you can vote without having seen everyone perform, which is so not fair. Then, if you actually care about fair, like I do, you have only one half hour to vote after the show ends. Which means, you can\u2019t get behind in the watching of it, as everyone with a DVR does, so they can cut-out commercials.<\/p>\n

Also, the contestants keep their same phone number all season long, so you don\u2019t even have to watch the show to vote! You just dial their number on Monday night anytime the show is on, from wherever you might be. So incredibly unfair. And stupid.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s happening this season is the worst ever; when you call in, more often than not, you get a message saying that your time zone has closed. When it hasn\u2019t! If you\u2019re just an accepting person, or not caring, not paying attention, or not too bright, you\u2019ll assume that\u2019s the truth and just stop trying to get through, even if your favorite needs your votes.<\/p>\n

This is what we\u2019ve been finding this season: if we call the numbers twenty times, let\u2019s say, at least ten of them will have the message saying our time zone has closed, when it clearly hasn\u2019t. Mr. X even helps me vote, because I\u2019ve impressed upon him that he can\u2019t get upset if a deserving dancer gets eliminated if he did nothing to help them, and when he first came up against the problem, he would have just believed the erroneous message and given up if I hadn\u2019t told him to ignore it and keep dialing.<\/p>\n

We also often get the message that says that we\u2019ve reached our \u201ccall-in limit.\u201d (Each week, the viewers get to vote only the number of times as the number of contestants. For example, if there are seven dancers left, we get seven votes per phone line. Therefore, the \u201ccall-in limit\u201d message should kick-in after seven that week.) But it often just comes on whenever it darn well pleases. If we plug on, we find out it, too, is erroneous.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And while I\u2019m on the topic of the show, I wish the judges would stop lauding so-so performances already!!! It\u2019s a little okay to do that in the first couple of weeks, to not hurt the feelings of the so-called celebs, but now it\u2019s just downright weird. Kirstie Alley is rarely good, and her bad samba last night was just ballroom dancing 101. Yet, she got two nines! (Out of ten, for those of you who don\u2019t watch.) They\u2019re just either being kind because she\u2019s old or the producers know she\u2019s a train wreck and they want her around for the duration. The marks are always a tad iffy, but they seem to be getting worse.<\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019m getting off topic of their phone problem. So, I\u2019m just really writing this to let you know that if you really want to vote for someone, you should ignore the incorrect messages and keep voting if you know that your time zone is active and you haven\u2019t dialed the maximum number of votes. And don\u2019t even get me started on the crazy unlimited-votes policy of American Idol<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DANCING WITH THE STARS PHONE-IN LINES PROBLEM \u00a0 I\u2019ve been meaning to call everyone\u2019s attention to this problem with the Dancing With The Stars call-in system all season, but another topic for the day\u2019s column always came up. It pissed me off even more last night, so I just had to make the space to<\/p>\n

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