[Penelope]

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Very reliable sources rumoured that David was 5th from around the night of Tuesday-afternoon of Thursday. It is clear that he picked up tons of votes on the Thursday HL show when the show was mostly about him (his birthday and his task).

And meanwhile Siavash was getting bad edits all that week especially on the Thursday, but people stull votes, but looking at the weighted % David looked close to become 2nd and that IMO was down to the last 3 HL shows as they all painted David in a good light and Siavash in a bad light but Siavash still managed to stay strong at 2nd.

As stated by Davina in Charlie's interview, I think his tantrum about not being the stylist annoyed viewers, it wasnt a very good day for him.

But Roddy is the one Im shocked at, he came 5th but I dont know why.[/rquote]
Of course, but the voting system is still garbage. I mean you had hardcore Rachel fanatics on DS voting 100+ times in last year's final, and she ended up scraping a win with 51% in the final vote against Mikey. The likelihood is, she had a much smaller fanbase than Mikey. He probably had more fans and voters in total, but they were less obsessed and didn't congregate and organise big waves of voting on forums.

If it's about public opinion, then everyone's opinion should have equal weighting. Otherwise you could just have a little small group of freaks/fanatics, voting 1000's of times each.

And since voting figures are lower than ever these days, esp with no text voting anymore, it's even more prone to fiddling. HMs aren't getting 4 million votes anymore (like Nadia).

They need to fix this. I mean Rachel's win last year was already proof of an erroneous system abused by multiple voting. Hell, maybe many other evictions/placings were skewed by multiple voting.

I personally believe Roddy had more fans than HMs 2nd to 4th. But they just didn't vote as hard. Ultimately with such a shakey system, we'll never know the true reality of public opinion.