Well, I can think of a drastic measure: account approval request upon sign up... This would pass the request for an account to a moderator who would then decide whether the new member is welcome or not. I dislike the mere thought of it, but that's something you can think of if things are getting out of hand.

I've mentioned before somewhere here that as a user I would like the 'search by category' to work on the advanced search page.
And it would make searching and reviewing more 'fun'/'accessible' if one could choose the category's in which the songs/lyrics are displayed. You know like in an auction site, you can choose age of the car, make, engine size, colour etc, Well I'd like to be able to list the songs by author sometimes, other times by date posted, or last commented or title etc.
I was about to say it wouldn't work in the Audio Review page but it would if you set the default on refresh to be 'last posted', so the user has to choose every time how they want to brows the songs/lyrics/blogs/members/favorites/own music/mail and the Collaboration review page!!!

i would prefer if the amp stayed as is, i am all for new members but
i dont want band amp to turn into antoher myspace or something
were a strong comunity, and this is a safe site
lets keep it that way

i say that again: keep the spirit of BandAmp

and I dont like the sentences beginning with "we..." and "you..." . this is splitting the community.
so who is we? who is you?
and I dont like the secrets about the programmers....

but good to see someone cares about "evolution" haha

Agree mostly with the Fishman

Like the semi-obscurity of Bandamp, but evolution is good
Want some growth, but not to the point of losing this "global community"

We're going to work on that. There have only been four programmers on this site. Myself, mud, slasherx and another programmer. Soon you'll see programmers from the BandAMP community, which I'm sure it will lead to great things. Mud and I will still be around.. our sparse availability won't be such a limiting factor.