How to campaign successfully to ensure all stakeholders (us) have a say

Before we wander off to have a think about how we can change things viz-a-viz Live feed, a few thoughts on where we are after a week or so.

We have reached the end of the first week of OBB (Ordinary Big Brother).
This is not to be confused with the OBB (Official Big Brother) Facebook page which exists in two forms: The Community and the TV Show.  There is a reason for this but it is not obvious to me.  Someone suggested that it may be to do with keeping the Live Feed Spammers out but that cannot be the complete case for once we found out about it, we spammed there as well.

It may be to do with the voting system that they are trying to put into place.  The previous voting system seemed quite well regulated (externally) and above suspicion.  That may no longer be the case as both CH5 and FB can hardly be said to be independent and yet they are the owner and provider of the system which allows those within it to vote a fraction of the cost of those outside it.

The system using the FB App allows massive numbers of block votes from multiple accounts.  A disreputable organisation which knew what the current vote totals were might easily be tempted to use multiple accounts at low costs to ensure that their favourite was kept in the house.  500 votes can cost as little as £30 but if you are a big rich company and a fair % of that £30 is coming back to you, what is to stop you voting tens of 1000s of times and ensuring your own outcome is achieved.  All the changes wrought so far seem to be about distancing the viewers from the show so this may be a logical progression.

Who is going to be the independent adjudicator for the votes now?

I asked Channel 5 for some reassurance about the integrity of the new system:

Dear Channel 5. Can you please explain how you intend to ensure that the new Facebook block voting system is independently administered to ensure that there is no block voting from within the organisation to influence outcomes and also to ensure that the actual vote numbers are both kept secret from your group until the final vote is taken and that the actual total votes cast are published with the numbers broken down to show the amount of votes tallied against each voting mechanism provided?
Thank you
JM

So back to the theme of this blog today: What can we do?

I think the first thing we need to do is find somewhere else to discuss strategies.  Only today the Live Feed Organiser was deleted as it is his group that provides a focal point for the 'Bring Back Live Feed' members. 

I think it would be prudent to set one up as soon as possible while we are still able to converse.

I shall return here in due course...