Poll: Should SR limit the amount of requests made in a row?

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Feb Wed 20, 2008 1:10 pm

i ran into this problem again last night. Some one had about 20 requests ques up and it was going to take over an hour and a half to lsiten to my selections, adn this was at 11:00pm EST. I still stad by my yes vote.

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Feb Wed 20, 2008 10:45 pm

I think the system is fine the way it is, please don't change it!

Breton · Post by **Breton** » Feb Thu 21, 2008 1:56 am

How about limiting the amount of requests during the day, but after a certain time then it goes back to the old system. Since there aren't as many people as there are during the day.

Yensidaj · Post by **Yensidaj** » Feb Thu 21, 2008 5:30 pm

I vote no. But not completely because I have an idea... The main problem seems to be someone hogging up the que for hours at a time why not make it so there is a small timer between requesting songs.

ie. lets say i request one song at 6am. I would not then beable to request another song untill 6:10 am.

this would allow people a little elbow room to get thier requests in and I believe it would create some variety in the requests that you see. sure this "may" bust up a theme that you are trying to go for but if nobody is requesting you can still get your theme. if someone else is wanting to request they will be able to get thier song in within a reasonable amount of time.

On a side note: I read Rdeacons post about doubling the cost of the next requested songs and I dont nessesarily agree with it. My points (what limited i have) are extremely precious to me and the thought of having the cost of tracks ramped up as i request makes my stomach turn. (sorry rdecon I love ya but not your idea, no hard feelings I hope)

Post by **spaulo** » Feb Thu 21, 2008 6:15 pm

Huh. I kind of like Yensidaj's idea. If the problem truly is big blocks of songs, then requiring a pause (5-10 minutes) between actually making requests would certainly handle this. At least, it sounds like it to me...

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Feb Thu 21, 2008 9:39 pm

great idea yensidaj....maybe even add a personal que so if you have a few songs you want as soon as its your "turn" agian it automatically puts your request in..i think a 3-5 min. window would work.

WishUponaStar · Post by **WishUponaStar** » Feb Fri 22, 2008 9:24 pm

I have only been here for a short time but one thing that I've noticed is that when I DO see a huge block of requested music by one person, like over 45-50 minutes I tend to just click off & go do something else. It's all great music but I don't necessarily always have that long to wait to hear the one song I may want to request.

No worries either way, it's all great. Just thought I'd put my two cents in as a "newbie" to this site. Obviously people who've been here for a long time have way more say than I do.

marcdijon · Post by **marcdijon** » Feb Sat 23, 2008 4:12 am

listening to other people songs, i have discovered really great songs i would never have requested myself, that's what fun.......you should do something else while listening to subsonic radio

jbvenn · Post by **jbvenn** » Feb Sat 23, 2008 11:56 am

I think Bostoncg made some good points, but I voted "no," not because I have a lot of points and like to use them, but because I don't want to make the system too complicated and bogged down in rules. I think too many rules could be just as discouraging to new users as a long request queue.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Feb Mon 25, 2008 9:36 am

marcdijon made a good point. I have found a lot of my favorite tracks have come from listening randomally from other people's requests. Sometimes, I'll listen to it and forget to check what the track was though lol

marcdijon · Post by **marcdijon** » Feb Mon 25, 2008 11:46 am

recently someone had requested the disneyland song of the elliott brothers, and i discovered it this way, it's really fun !

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Feb Mon 25, 2008 12:28 pm

marcdijon wrote:listening to other people songs, i have discovered really great songs i would never have requested myself

I have had this happen more and more. Just by listening to the streams I sometimes have a song that is cool and I put it in my treasures. I think I am up to 187 songs in my treasures.........yep 187 and I seem to add about one a day when listening to the request stream. I haven't been on them in about 2 weeks but when I am I do find a song here and there.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Feb Tue 26, 2008 9:50 am

There's a reason this won't appease everyone because most of the time I run into a long queue line, it's usually from multiple people requesting longer tracks, not just one person. So putting a limit of requests made in a row might work and it might not work...just some more thoughts to ponder about.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Feb Tue 26, 2008 11:18 am

Well the point is more for diversity rather than quantity, I think. If you are seeing more, different, names in the queue then that means more user are getting to request. If one user blocks up the time fewer users get to request.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Feb Tue 26, 2008 12:20 pm

True, good point. My problem has always been seeing the queue line real long, I tend not to look who was requesting it but just seeing when the next queue spot is available.