Song length quota?

[J-B]

Actually I secretly had to laugh about Vax's mathematic posts.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by J-B

Actually I secretly had to laugh about Vax's mathematic posts.

WHAT! You found my scholarly mathematical dissertation to be humorous?

I glad you understood and enjoyed the intended humor.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by J-B

Well. Some seem to ignore a few statements I made in my original post by neglecting them and drawing their own conclusions regarding my intentions. Such as considerering my comment a complaint rather than a suggestion. Or concluding that I don't like long songs. Or assuming that I want long songs cut in half. Or thinking that I want to inflict a lot of work on the admins. And some use the opportunity to do some bullshitting when someone is trying to be serious! Now is that good or bad?

Great to be treated like that as a newbie!

I feared beforehand (as at least some of you may have read) that this would lead to nothing! So why continue this discussion?

And why worry. At times when the queue gets a bit too long-winded to my liking I still have my own collection to play from

And now the ultimate punnishment for all this...I am staying tuned to Aural Moon. I'm actually enjoying this station, the new music I am introduced to, the possibilty to request songs and introduce new stuff to others is special. And I enjoy the nice comments in the shout window. Seriously think you're doing a great job here.

No one's treating you J-B with any personal intent either way. You've asked a question and people are giving you opinions.

Please let us have our right to bullshit After all, it's in the Constitution, wrtten on the back.

I've been staying out of the discussion because I would think it impossible to program and enforce song lengths. Bottom line is, the checks and balances here with regard to overrequesting is excellent.

Welcome J-B...keep posting.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

I've been staying out of the discussion because I would think it impossible to program and enforce song lengths.

Well, nothing is impossible in software but how would/should I enforce it? Should I give everyone, say, 1 hour of request time. If they request Greg Howard's Water On The Moon their limit for the day is exhausted; whereas, they could request 20 3-minute songs if they choose wisely.

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Bottom line is, the checks and balances here with regard to overrequesting is excellent.

It has been working better since I enforced placing user IDs on every request. There are those who still request the same song multiple times. In some cases it is because they missed the track when it played, so I give them the benefit of the doubt. If, however, it is a song that is rather lengthy and I know this song has been played often enough that everybody has neard it at least once in their lifetime, I may opt to dismiss the request -- especially if the queue length is not short.

[drgeorge]

Size doesn't matter! So I've heard.

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Originally Posted by drgeorge

Size doesn't matter! So I've heard.

Well, sometimes it's a waste of time if you don't do the right things with the amount you've been given. Or so I've heard.

[spewie]

First of all I would like to apologize to JB and say that I had no intention of offending a new listener. I like the request policy here at the moon and the fact that the music comes first here. So please accept my humble opinion without taking any offense.

Thank you,
Spewie

[Michael]

Originally Posted by VAXman

WHAT! You found my scholarly mathematical dissertation to be humorous?

I glad you understood and enjoyed the intended humor.

I know this thing called Math

1+1=3

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Michael

I know this thing called Math

1+1=3

That's correct! 11₍₂₎ = 3

There are 10 type of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

[cribguy]

Originally Posted by VAXman

That's correct! 11₍₂₎ = 3

There are 10 type of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Yep!

Also 1+1=0 with a remainder of 1.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by cribguy

Yep!

Also 1+1=0 with a remainder of 1.

1 ⊕ 1 = 0

[J-B]

You know just 10 type of people? I know at least 9 type of people, thats a lot more!

[dinosaur]

J-B:
Welcome to the moon...the only place where discussions of musical tastes and playlist protocol always, yes always, morph into the Laplace-domain, complex pole positions, and abstract algebra, or worse (okay, dammit, I'll be the first in this thread), King's X, GYBE, and Dream Theater!
But seriously, welcome! And enjoy!

[Michael]

Originally Posted by VAXman

1 ⊕ 1 = 0

Big guns coming out now and this is for all the marbles Can you spell Kat?

Well my Zero to your power of ten = nothing at all.

VAXman, the Moon's greatest lover of Mathrock!!!

[J-B]

Originally Posted by dinosaur

J-B:
Welcome to the moon...the only place where discussions of musical tastes and playlist protocol always, yes always, morph into the Laplace-domain, complex pole positions, and abstract algebra, or worse (okay, dammit, I'll be the first in this thread), King's X, GYBE, and Dream Theater!
But seriously, welcome! And enjoy!

Thanks for handing that. Where's Dream Theater and Kings X?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by J-B

Thanks for handing that. Where's Dream Theater and Kings X?

King's X? Will be heard on my show in a few weeks.

Being new, J-B, you've not been exposed to the tiresome knocking of King's X. It's mentioned by Dinosaur because it seemed for a time that every thread went into a reference to King's X. Kind of amusing actually - most of the time there would be no mention of them, and then someone would say "let's not let this thread morph into a discussion of.......

Nice Tull reference Keithie. Adding to the "Sunday lunch confusion"

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

King's X? Will be heard on my show in a few weeks.

I'm busy that week!

Originally Posted by VAXman

I'm busy that week!

I wasn't going to be but I've now booked myself in for a Brazilian Wax....much less painful

[Yesspaz]

There are two kinds of people: those that can do math and those that can't.



Anyway, I've always thought that the delay between requests could be related to the length of the song. For example:

song less than 10:00 = 1 hour delay between requests
song between 10:01 and 20:00 = 2 hour delay
song 20:01 and over = 3 hour delay

Here, there's no "quota." No one's stopping anyone from requesting any length song. Want to request "Tubular Bells, Part One?" Go for it. Just know it'll be three hours till you can request again.

NOTE: the one hour delay till it goes in the queue stays the same, just the delay until you can request again changes.


If this is a good idea (I vote for it), great. I don't know how much programming that would take. I know nothing about it. Anyway, that's my two cents.