First of all, last night was a blast! We threw a party for D. V. S. Magazine's 1st issue. Lysola puts it out and the party was her idea. We held it on our nude beach at Goetz. We decided to rez out all of the old club stuff; the contest board, trivia ball, sploder and dance controllers. I DJ'd the event so I put out my tip jar too. People started showing up right away and were there ever a lot of them! At one point, my radar told me there were 33 people partying there. I believe that is the largest in-world audience I have ever had. I sure wish I had not been too busy to take pictures though. It would have been nice to publish them here. Hopefully next time?
So it was very busy for me. First of all, the contest board failed, then people started paying me directly as in tips. That meant my tip jar was not working. Lysola paid me L$600 to start a contest but nobody could join the contest unless they belonged to the group, even though I had the contest board set to no group! Yes, Rach and I determined last night that it's time for a new contest board. Even though I wrote to the creator of that board asking a question that the instructions did not address, I never heard back from him so that tells me he's either not in SL anymore, or doesn't care. The contest board is years old and that's a long time in SL. Anyway, I messed around with that contest board, doing everything I could think of to get it to work properly. Nothing. I rezzed out an older version of my tip jar and that started working so it fixed that problem. I had to announce in chat and over the music stream that the couple's dance controller could also handle single dances. And while all this was going on, I was handling the usual IMs from friends who didn't want to come to the party and numerous music requests. And it's those requests that prompted me to write this post.
It seems that some people (and I won't name any names) like to "stump the DJ". Yes, they are not making requests of songs they want to hear, they are making requests that are difficult pieces of music to find. I am naive I guess. I figured these people were wanting me to play music that would entertain them. Little did I know at the time that they were trying to stump me. So I searched long and hard for these requests and found all of them. All of them except for the last one. With about 30 minutes to go in the event, I was asked to find a song and play it. I could not find it anywhere so I let the person know and that person happily announce in local chat that they had "stumped the DJ". I thought it was a joke at first and laughed it off. Then I got back into her IM and apologized for coming up short on that request. She informed me that it was okay, she was trying to stump me and she succeeded. She told me she wanted me to "work for it". What?!?! Really?!?! I didn't say anything more about it then and there. I was too busy helping people and playing music. I could not believe she felt I was not working hard enough on the other requests.
So I got to thinking about it after the event. Okay, each song I download costs about 99 cents which is fine. In this case, the tips I was getting for each song was L$50. That translates to 20 cents. So she was putting me through all the bullshit to find her difficult to find song for a mere 20 cents? And in reality, I'm out 79 cents after she has tipped me for it *IF* she tips. Often times, people don't tip. So what was my purpose there last night, to throw a party and entertain, or to provide sport for someone? From her perspective, it was to provide a challenge for her to stump me. That is not what I had intended to do last night at all.
I enjoy playing what people want to hear, but if by taking requests I'm providing sport for someone trying to stump me, then I will no longer take any requests.
