Song length quota?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

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

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

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

With just a handful of requesters, this is already realized without any programming effort at all.

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

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.

Careful there. MO's Tubular Boils has been festering too often of late. I am tempted to give it and all its brethren a sabbatical from the playlist.

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

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.

Do you want any change?

I don't think the current request scheme is going to be modified anytime soon. I've coded changes that, IMO, have put a real damper on the over-requesting. Long tracks are, however, the nature of prog and I'm not going to give a 5 minute track any preference over a 25 minute track. I say I'm not as it will likely fall upon me to code it.