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Old 08-24-2004, 04:11 PM
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Re: Jim sez Rick sez

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Originally posted by Rick and Roll


Jim sez: Well, these two points almost contradict themselves, don't they? The bottom line is, we already have a limit on how often people can request. We are going to experiment with some minor modifications to these policies (making them more stringent, I'm afraid) and feedback will be listened to.

Rick sez: No they dont.....I sometimes lose my meaning for the sake of editing. I meant it's human nature to want to have ones' favs played, but the alternative to the freedom we enjoy is limits, which is not palatable for most people. I'm asking for the requestors to self-police themselves, cause I don't feel in a free forum such as Aural Moon we should have limits. I already find some of that discussion past the point of being workable (note to Spaz and RdotLee....do we have to count the songs and how many times each band is played? There are ways around it...I heard a later Yes tune followed by Sherwood/Squire - or FK then Kaipa. Please just go with gut feeling and what you think is reasonable, cause I'll argue with you tooth and nail that there can be abuse...ie req a short tune by a band in order to keep the band from playing again.
I wouldn't call this abuse; I'd call it "taking one for the team"
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Jim sez: As I alluded earlier, I think the only way to hear more variety is to limit the requests, unfortunately. We'll continue to work on it from all angles though.

Rick sez: A thought to the overrequestors - if you don't want limits set, please control yourselves!
For the record, the requests today have been excellent.

And Rick, you're right, there's always the POSSIBILITY of abuse. What I'm trying to do is to react to the abuses that exist today. When I find myself groaning because the Flower Kings (a band I like a LOT) are coming on, there's abuses taking place.
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