[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by J-B

As an Aural Moon newbie I realize this may have been discussed before, or I may even be moving into a danger zone by raising this....

I've just requested a wonderfull Tranastlantic song....a very very long song. It took me a long wait and just a few very long songs before it came on. Some of them seemed interesting, some of them seemed very boring and never ending. And then I thought: wait a minute? What if someone finds my 29:40 minute song boring?

I do apreciate that some of the best songs in the genre are 20+ minutes long, however, it can be very tedious if three songs in a row are of the long kind, especially if they are not your cup of tea. While often thought, long songs are not necesarily represantative of what the genre has to offer.

At Aural Moon I have discovered an artist quota: good! I have discovered a personal quota: also good! But wouldn't it give variety, other music and other people a better chance if there would be some sort of personal song length quota?

Suggested personal quota:
1 out of 4 songs 10-15
1 out of 8 songs 15-20
1 out of 12 songs 20+

Go ahead, hate me for my suggestion

And yeah, I am realy realy enjoying listening to 'All of the Above' by Transatlantic, it's on now

Please, feel free to provide me with the PHP and mySQL access code for this feature and I will install it.

Seriously, I've implemented a bit of code in the past few months that makes it easier to track requests and requesters. I know who is abusing the privilege and who is not. I've also added a way to tag each request with the requester's name. This appears to have put a damper on some of the over-requesting. Many long time moonies are well aware of some of the request abuse issues that have plagued the moon in the past.

For now, I can manually pull requested tracks if they appear to be tracks that have been requested time and time again by the same requester. I do not (or have not) pulled a track that has been requested many times but by different requesters. Be mindful though that if I find a cabal conspiring to over-request a track that track will get pulled.

However, all that now said, I do not see a more restrictive request policy in the near future for 2 reasons:

1. I don't have the time to code up such restrictions and there are some other web page improvements I have started but have not yet completed. I will devote my efforts to completing those before I attack any new bit of code to enforce request policy.
   
2. Most of the request policy is enforced by SAM. Unless the folks at Spacial Audio provide a more robust schema for song requests, requesting is likely to retain status quo ante.