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sir_quirky_k ([info]sir_quirky_k) wrote,
@ 2006-09-02 12:54:00
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This will not surprise the reader of this blog
The website [for online entry] was NOT working last night. If you viewed the page as SOURCE and know anything about HTML the Submit button did not have a TRUE value associated to it so it did NOTHING. The only way to get the damned thing to work was to hit ENTER not submit. And was this brought up on the show? I think not... This should have been made aware on the show to everyone... And it is considered gambling if there is no way to play for free so I can understand how many viewers saw this as fraudulent.

(quote from an Invision board user regarding an Endemol call-and-lose show aired in the failed colonies; see here for a discussion on the show, and here for forum posts from winners claiming not to have been paid.)

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[info]daweaver
2006-09-02 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Two points here, I think.

1. Why the web form failed. A simple case of incompetence, caused by a lack of testing, most likely. And it's only the button that failed, the form itself worked, albeit not in the standard manner.

2. Not publicising it on the broadcast. For a one-night failure, this is quite possible - the lines of communication between a live television studio and the web may well not be staffed at two in the morning.

From the evidence presented, I'm chalking this one up to cock-up.

Of course, that Turner believes it necessary to abandon his regular programming and put on a call'n'lose show says much about these colonials. They're almost as bad as the mother country.

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