I don't believe that OurStage is doing anything to manipulate the standings.

I do wonder about the viability of the judging system. For instance, this month I entered my three songs. In the three categories, there were well over 1,000 songs entered. In order for me to hear all the songs, I would need to judge well over 500 battles. In actuality I judged 19 (my decision/fault). So I wonder about the behavior of others who judge - I would bet most of them are people who have songs entered.

I guess what I am saying is that I would bet there are relatively few battles compared to how many it would take for everyone to judge all the songs.

Consequently, with only a small number of battles, a positive or negative vote on any one song can cause a wide swing in the ranking. If there were many thousands of battles being judged, any one vote would have a minor impact and a large swing in a short period of time would be unlikely. Since I saw wild swings in my rankings, I can only conclude that there weren't many voters. A corollary would be that someone who gets his street team to cast votes would have a lot of influence if there were few other voters. And if the street teams were mostly young kids (highly likely), then the results would reflect that more youthful/current sounding songs would have the advantage.

As Brian stated, that may change towards the end of the month as more people get excited. It would be interesting to see some data on the number of votes cast.

There a lots of good songs on there, so I don't mean to imply otherwise. And I am not going to jump off a tall building if my songs don't do well.

Colin

I try to critique as if you mean business.....

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