Author Archives: ctsadmins

Welcome to Connect The Songs (Read Info!)
20
Apr

Hi there, and welcome to the Connect The Songs! room on Turntable.fm! I’m J_Dubb, the original founder of our room and while I may have been the one that started the room, our community as a whole has made it what it is today. Our primary goal in the room is to have fun. We achieve that goal by abiding by the rules we’ve put in place to “connect” as many songs as possible.

If you’re new to turntable.fm in general then you’re probably excited to start clicking things to see what they do and how they work! If that’s the case then your efforts as a DJ would probably be more well-received in a non-themed room. That’s not to say you’re not welcome to DJ here, it’s just that we are a themed room, and as such we have rules and guidelines in place that aren’t found in other non-themed rooms.
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The Great Moderator Meltdown of 2012
21
Mar

Greetings folks! I’m sincerely sorry I’ve been so short with the whole mod thing, and just in general lately! I’m in meetings all week and I’ve got a client going live next week which I’m not going to be here for, so I’m bringing a colleague up to speed on the client and blah blah blah blah etc….and the fiance and I leave on the cruise Friday to get married. So…without further adieu, an explanation.

As anyone on this page is aware we’ve had some issues with mods – probably due in a large part to myself. There are times when I’d log on late and find the room modless, so I’d see someone in there that I’d seen regularly for a little while and give them mod. Then, being that I gave them no instruction otherwise, they might do the same thing and give someone else mod, and then it’s just the snowball effect from there and we end up with undesirables as moderators.

That is why we nuked the current mod roster. There were just too many cooks in the kitchen. It’s worth noting that a LOT of them are great frickin’ cooks, too! I’ve had badtzninja’s lobster ravioli – ITS AMAZING!

Our ultimate goal has been, and remains to be, to get a bot that allows room users the ability to moderate via vote functionality similar to the script that J-Step was running locally. We abandoned that due to the stability issues we faced regarding up-time (I think Chrome will only retain a connection for 12 hours – plus that shit required J-Step to leave his machine running 24/7 for the sake of the bot. Very selfless of him to give us the option to begin with!). So now we have Dalton’s bot, which lacks the votekick funtionality, but we are still working toward getting this back.

The only true reason we need mods is to get rid off the random jackasses the come into the room and ruin things for everyone, or the folks that get pulled away and distracted and go AFK. With an option to use votekick this allows room users to moderate without being mods.

But…we do not currently have that functionality. In an effort to simplify things and minimize the number of mods we have we’re going to initially give mod privileges to a select few people that we believe should be able to provide, collectively, mod coverage for the room on a 24/7 basis. IF you’re in the room and there’s consistently no moderators present between some specific hours please let us know and we’ll find a solution together.

Not everyone that was previously a mod in the room will be made a moderator again. Please know that this is not a decision that was made for personal reasons! 95% of our mods do a great job of moderating the room, and we all greatly appreciate the effort you all put forth. Some of you will be made mods again, possibly not right away, but in time as we identify gaps.

In closing one thing that I think we can all agree is critical, until turntable.fm puts something in place to allow us to moderate the moderators of our room – If you are a mod we ask that you, under no circumstances, give anyone else mod privileges without first speaking to the rest of the modstaff. This should help us prevent running into similar issues in the future.

Thank you all very much for your time to allow me to address this, and your continued support and participation in the room we have all helped build and grow.

Yours,
J_Dubb

 

 

Ask Not What Turntable.fm Can Do For You!
16
Mar

As a preface to this post – no, I do not work for turntable.fm!

Do you enjoy the time you spend on turntable.fm? I do! Regardless of whether I’m in our room, or some of the other rooms I visit – I find it to be an all around enjoyable experience. I enjoy the social aspect of it – meeting new people is always cool. I enjoy the musical discovery aspect of it. Our room is especially good for this! I’ve discovered lots of new music thanks to the varying degree of tunes DJs play in our room.

Turntable has millions of dollars in investments backing it, but regardless, no service  is successful without a solid active user-base! That’s where we come in! Since turntable.fm’s inception several new services have come out that have surely taken away from tt.fm’s user-base. Namely Spotify. I think Facebook also came out with something (that no one in the world is using, to my knowledge!).

I don’t have specific statistics for tt.fm, but it does seem to me that the user-base has been dwindling. I don’t really see the numbers in the popular rooms that I used to. It could be argued that more smaller rooms have been created and as such the users have distributed across a more broad spectrum. It’s possible the numbers have been increasing, but I’m not sure. Nevertheless, the point of this post remains – If you like the service that tt.fm is providing, then do your part to spread the word, and help it grow!

Post on your social networking website of choice (Facebook, myspace, friendster (hah, kidding, who the hell uses friendster?, or perhaps a forum you frequent!)) – make sure your friends are aware of turntable.fm! Tell them why it’s cool!

If you’ve been on the internet a while then you’ve possibly been a part of some type of social network that didn’t make it, and ended up becoming abandonware. If you play games then possibly an MMO that just didn’t make the cut. That’s not cool when you lose touch with a lot of people you got to know!

Do your part and help support turntable.fm!