2.22.11 Adam Gets Fired Up

scorpio - what you said makes perfect sense to me. (though I completely understand passing on Sophie as we have more than proved ourselves there).

In terms of requesting, for a little while I was monitoring my Top 40 stations twitter @'s just to see what other requests they were getting. I was seeing plenty of requests for Bruno, and Katy, and Adele and Gaga. Sometimes I wondered, why on earth are people requesting a song that is gonna get played in the next 20 minutes regardless? But people were. We don't know how big a role requests play for each individual station. But they clearly play some role.

We don't know how many fans are actively requesting. We know if we are individually, but in the larger fandom?

Maybe 250 members browse here on an average-ish day, but 3,500 guests do. Do they request? Do they get discouraged or encouraged to request by what they read from the posts? We don't know.

(Okay just a slight digression, like people have said, feelings are all valid, everyone's opinion is their own and they have all the freedom in the world to share. But sometimes I
consider, what will be the effect of how I share my feelings on a larger community much of which is invisible? Might it incidentally effect others behavior? Not my responsibility of course, but maybe one consideration).

I request to show interest and engagement with the station, Adam, and the song. I request to make my voice heard. I request to build karma points for Adam, whether or
not my song is played that day, or the next, or never. That's why I do it.