I'm new here and I have a few questions...

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by penguindf12
So...does that mean there's a "forum screenname" and a "main page screenname"?

They don't have to be different screen names, but they are different logins. Two different databases control it, actually. Not my decision, and there's no easy way to fix it without breaking a whole lot of other things.

Very good suggestions, however. I'd like to address a few that are near and dear to my heart:

Oh, and what's with that "ask a question" thing on the FAQ? If you click it without signing in, it'll say "you are not authorized to ask a question!" How fair is that? That alone may drive many people away.

It hasn't so far. And it's a policy decision. We got tired of culling through all of the "HAY HAVE U FOUND UR WAY TO MY SITE HTTP://WWW.GOOFYPR0NSPAMSMUTVIAGRAWAREZSITE.COM" and other such wildly inappropriate FAQ material.

I probably posted this in the wrong section, so could anyone who does know where this type of thing goes forward it there? Possibly to the webmaster or whoever handles stuff like this?

No, this is the right place, or at least close enough. We don't have a 'Ask a FAQ' section. We've got the main section, sections for the DJs of the shows, and the music suggestion area, along with the administrative notes section. We keep things simple here. My life is complicated enough as it is.

It says you live in Baltimore suburbs...Baltimore, Maryland? That's only one time zone over from me...

Perhaps, but I think the difference is one's definition of 'late', usually dependent on how early our boss expects us to get to work the next morning. I myself live in the Wilds of North Georgia, and sometimes my 'late' is even earlier than Rick's.

Then there are days like today where my 'early' involves starting work at 2am EST, but that's a kvetch for a different posting.

In another message, you wrote:

But the main reason I posted here was because of something simpler. I attempted to make a request, and it said "request failed because requests are disabled" or something like that. I was wondering why that was, and if there is some guidline about that.

As has been mentioned, welcome to Request Free Wednesdays. It's in the archives. I should probably figure out how to have a timed event to announce it on Wednesdays, but with everything else, I just haven't had the time to figure out how. It's been on my plate, but people keep piling other things on top of it, and it keeps getting gravy spilled on it.

Also, yesterday the "gagliarchives" came up and lasted twice as long as the time at the right said it would. Again, these are fairly minor imperfections to a wonderful station, but they're large enough for me to mention them.

That's a limitation in SAM (the station software). It has a problem comprehending that anything would be over 139 minutes (Gagliarchives runs for 4 hours, or 240 minutes, give or take 15 mins on either side).

Since SAM isn't open source, there's nothing I can do about that. I've suggested to the authors that this might be worth investigating. Since we're awaiting a station upgrade (IE whenever I can find the time to do it), it MAY be fixed in the next release. Maybe. Only time will tell.

I don't want a little thing like confusion and a unintuitive layout to keep someone from hearing this great music.

I don't think it does, considering the fact that probably 1% of our listeners even log on to the site, and of that 1%, probably 10% of them actually come to the forums. Those that do log on to find the streams usually find them in fairly short order, without logging in, and go from there.

As far as a FAQ or other such, most of them are usually answered by the good folk that call Aural Moon home (myself included, if I have the time). Feel free to grab yourself a main screen login, hop into the Shoutbox, or what we affectionately call 'The White Room' (live, online chat).

Note: you have to have your popup blockers turned off for that to work, and it doesn't work with Safari. I've been pestering Apple about this, but we can all see just how far THAT'S gotten. Click on the SPChat link on the upper right portion of the main screen.

Welcome to the Moon.

Roger -Dot- Lee, technical manager, in charge of things that go 'clank' when you drop them, and general nuisance when annoyed.