Subject: RE: Mudcat Registration-Want to join Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 16 Sep 11 - 09:35 AM

"I'm one of these people whose GUEST status is mostly define by the fact that I have to sign in everytime I use the site; I might sign in (from time to tme) to check on PMs, or include more HTML in my posts, but generally speaking I think PMs are a bad idea - I've had some bad ones in my time, from people you'd think would have more sense; one should only write bad things on running water; or at least on open forum!

If Mudcat were ever to set itself up as a proper forum and ditch the God-like hero-cult sycophantic crap I'd be only too happy to be a member because (God-like hero-cult crap & attendant cloying sycophancy notwithstanding) Mudcat is a great place to be - great resource, great archives, just a shame to think it all exists at the whim of one person really. I saw that happen with the old Harvest Home / Woven Wheat Whispers folk community - soon as the self-styled Lord o' Misrule got bored with it, down it went & we lost a very precious resource, however so flawed it's overall - er - concept...

So, if Mudcat was a proper community, with proper membership answerable to a proper elected committee, with no invisible MODS, and a far more savvy notion on what constituted FOLKLORE, and actually lived up to its hype as a a community of musicians, historians and enthusiasts that collect and discuss traditional folk and blues songs, folklore, lyrics, instruments then I'd be going along with the members only policy as mooted by several in the past. As it stands, I come here for the crack & the crack alone (note spelling there BTW: crack rather than craic - as a native born Northumbrian (however so Oirish in my ancestry) it will always be crack)."

Sounds like YOU should start a resource like this. With a committee. Of course. I would join. Just to see how long it would last.