I talked to some friends over the last month and they like the option of visiting the Moon w/o the Forum postings. We also have a lot of regulars who visit the Moon w/o the Forums. I however am not one of them lol......

Policing is not really needed if you limit rq's to two a day. If there are, say, 30 requestors w/ 2 songs each @ 7 minutes avg a tune, that's 420 minutes, or 7 hours. That's plenty. Why have the same people rq all day anyway? (It's always #'s w. me, even at midnight w/ 2 bloody mary's and a few other drinks in my system :D ).

Dot, we're square. Your last post explains everything, and we're:cool: Just get vax to but you a drink at RoSfest, I'm not responsible for the consequences.:p

I like the requesting system. I don't make a large number of requests (a few a week at my peak). But I do enjoy having the feature there. I use it to listen to specific artists I'm interested in, and also to change the program - in a small way - to something I enjoy if the recent fare has not been to my taste.

I don't have much complaint these days about anything being overplayed. I would rather not make it even harder for people to request tunes, or to eliminate requests entirely.

So put me in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" column.

OK, executive decision - no changes to request policy at this time.

If Dot and I come up with what we think is a good idea, we'll post again.

And I reserve the right to DJ some obscure (but great, IMO) music from time to time;)

exactly. one of the root causes of the problem, #2 on my post.

i say let jim drive the bus, avoid the "too many cooks" scenario.

he could use requests to sweeten the paying membership package.:D

one last point re:
> I talked to some friends over the last month and they like the option of visiting the Moon w/o the Forum postings.

i don't think it would be too big a burden to drop in once
in awhile, let jim & dot know that footing the bill,
spending countess hours keeping things sorted is appreciated.
let's not forget that this is a labor of love, not a public service
that we're entitled to.

kirk

You'd be surprised at how many people seem to believe just this. Case in point was Our Favorite Overrequester who, when they got their request priviledges removed, essentially sent the email equivalent of a petulant two year old stomping and screaming because Mommy wouldn't buy him a toy.

Fortunately the vast majority of users understand that we do this in our spare time (though some need to be reminded of this).

But I've got more time to invest these days, so I'll be more of a fixture (until something else comes along and rips what little free time I might have from my firm white-knuckle grasp).

Roger -Dot- Lee, "NO! MINE! MINEMINEMINEMINE!!!"

Most of the friends I talked to who stated they visit without hitting the forums are musicians. :D I've been working on having them spread the word about Aural Moon.

Excellent choice, I say. I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with the system as it is now? The RFW is phenomenal, but RQing is what made me stick with AM when I first looked for prog internet stations.