Oh. I see you must be right, Urban, because, irony of ironies, when I logged in today the ad in the upper lefthand corner was for...

...e-mail verification systems! Email Verification 5.0.0 :laughing:

Since the owners aren't advertising, then the site must just be an investment for them and nothing more. So, to gain the owners' attention or get sold to someone who wants to make larger improvements, I still think the site has to grow and become überhot.

Here are the current stats on which to improve:
Hmmm....$22,000...maybe *I* could buy the site! ;)

(It would help if the place went to hell for a while to drive the price down. Maybe if I post more often...even longer, more tedious posts...I'll drive more people away. THEN I'll make my takeover move. Bwaa haa haa haaaaaa!)

In the spirit of the thread, a couple more useful smilies would be useful...

http://www.arizonacorvetteenthusiast...t/facepalm.gif

Googling this every time someone acts retarded is a great inconvenience to me.

We can just have all the regulars agree to not post for a month, come back, and then see what kind of havoc has just ensued. I'm imagining nothing but spam. That could drive the price down pretty good.

You are probably right.

Actually, MusicBanter wouldn't be too bad of an investment especially if someone loves music. The main website competitor that I see, MuzicForums, is only worth around $1500. MusicBanter has much more pull because it is older with more members...currently.

If someone who loved music actually owned the site and didn't see it *just* as an investment, then you could probably make quite a few improvements for the sake of the whole community and music. The only downside for the new owner would be needing to protect your investment...such as by no longer allowing obvious downloads of bootlegs. I hear that websites can get shut down for that. If I were the owner, I would need to enforce copyright laws on the Boards. I assume what goes on in private in PMs couldn't be checked?

You think the idea of a member-owned site isn't good? You must not have spent much of your life investing, Mr. Cunning!

This.

And this has probably been brought up before, but how about giving everyone the capability to change their own Avatar to a bigger size. Within the limit of course. And so people won't overdo it, make A limit like once every 3 months.

I don't want to make any assumptions, as I wasn't modded when this happened, but for the longest time something or another was broken and now the only available option is for mods to give large avatars. Maybe one of the senior mods has more on that.
If users could upload large avatars, I don't think there would need to be a limit to how often they change it. The only reason we suggest that people stick with their avvy for a reasonable amount of time is because there's only so many mods and there are a lot more regular users, so it would get hectic for us.

I have noticed that we get a lot less avvy requests since we moved the avatar thread and started requiring that the user do all the necessary resizing. I don't know if people just don't feel like doing the work or are afraid we'll yell at them for requesting an avatar... We won't. :)

By all means, if you want a new avatar, request one in the avatar thread after reading the guidelines.

If there is a better system and it could easily be changed, why not?

edit: I tried to change this setting and couldn't find it. Help?

How does the last.fm thing work? Could it be possible to change it so instead of just getting my recent tracks, I can get one of those nifty Top of the Week ones?

Pretty sure you can change all those settings via the Last.fm website where you create your little thingy. You can select what tracks it shows (i.e. whether it shows recent tracks, or top tracks, etc).

Ah, you're right. You can. Thanks. :wave: