[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally posted by Roger Lee
Greetings.

As you all well know, Jim and I were toying with the idea of taking the idea of Request Free Wednesday and taking it to it's logical conclusion: Request free month of April. The reason behind this is because of the positive response and reaction we've received with RFW. Turning requests off on Wednesdays, in this listener's opinion (and yes, I do listen, I don't just work here) is one of the best ideas we've come up with.

I didn't and don't see that as being the logical conclusion.

That particular idea seemed to garner a lukewarm reception, to say the very least.

From the responses to the poll, I'd say your lukewarm assessment requires an endothermic boost.

So that particular idea has been shelved, but a few alternatives cropped up that definitely got our attention. But, in all fairness, let's take a look at ALL the ideas that have been bandied about:

• Remove requests entirely for the entire month
  

• This is an alternative? The poll already indicated this was not an alternative.
  
  
  

  Turn the idea of RFW on it's ear and make every other day request-free, except Wednesdays, where requests would rule the day (so to speak).

  One day a week set aside? Sounds too judeo-christian to me.
  
  
  
  

  Alternate request free days

  Leave it alone, don't break what's working, etc.

  If it ain't broke...
  
  
  

  Remove RFW and let the listeners run roughshod over the library (you can tell where I stand personally on this particular idea).

  That is, more or less, how AM has worked for 5 years. It's still going strong from what I can ascertain.
  
  When I found the moon it had attributes that the other stations did not:
  
  1. MP3 stream... not forced to use some inferior s/w to listen to it.
  2. Requests ( not that I make many but it's an interesting option)
  3. A large library.
  4. Little prog metal.
  5. Little metal...
  
  To date, 1 still stands. 2 is in jeopardy. 3 is ever increasing -- a definitive plus. 4. is waning... and so has 5.
  
  Really, making AM completely request free is a draconian as when WNEW went to talk radio format.
  
  
  

  Send Dr. Dot a round trip ticket to England so I can hang out with the British Contingent for a while and catch some good Prog Tunes in a live setting (OK, I made this one up. I still think it's a good idea! )

Would you settle for tix to ROSfest?

So what do YOU think? Do you have any great ideas as to how we can take a good thing and make it better? SHOULD we take a good thing and make it better? Should we take a good thing and eliminate it entirely, thus opening the door to massive overrequesting and the end of the world as we know it, followed by the degeneration of western civilization and rule of the entire planet by cockroaches? (OK, so I exaggerated that last bit).

I don't see the MASSIVE OVERREQUESTING. OK, there was a time not too long ago with our favorite TFK requestor but that's not reason to revamp the way the moon has operated successfully for many years.

I would like to see some better tracking to determine whether these requests are being made by the same enitity. The some simple policing if it gets out of hand.