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I've offered some serious adjustments in a call today to Daniel which would address 100% of the concerns of everyone involved. I think this open discussion is very helpful and I am happy that the site is willing to adjust based on real world usage. When you build a model for something you base it on how things SHOULD work sometimes without really understanding how things WILL work. It's hard to build in the awareness of cheating and intentionally bad judging to a system that is based on integrity and doing the right thing. But my years in the business and dealing with musicians in the US and Europe has taught me that there's a lot of desire to succeed which will allow folks to sell out their own integrity in order to win something or do well. Ourstage could be the perfect system ever, AS IS, IF and only IF people were honest. Then by the end of voting the songs that most people liked the best would succeed. But we all know that folks simply want to win regardless of how good their song is and just as much, don't want others to do well. So I have offered up a solution to that problem and a way to improve the enjoyment of the voting system AND to also bring more positive attention to the songs which win in a given month. We'll see what they think of those ideas. (I think Daniel is pitching them to the CEO as we speak).

The best part of all of this is that it's costing our folks nothing to participate and we're all finding cool new music and discovering artists we didn't know before. In addition, if you're smart, you're making direct contact (and personal, not generic form letters) to those who seem compatible with your own artistic visions. I think when you folks find an artist you really like, you should invite them to join us back here as well. Let's expand the network. We're bringing our people there, let's bring some of them back to us!

Brian