Will, wise words indeed. One of the reasons I don't post as much as I used to (quite apart from not having the time) is that it's not always possible to see the point of dong so. You'll add what you hope is a reasonably polite and coherent message to a thread, but all too often there are a handful of people rehashing the same few arguments they take across multiple threads without the fainest hope of resolution, and other contributions fall by the wayside. This may be because contributions like mine are too dull to engage with, but I also think it's because the general tenor that gets set is not conducive to a more wide ranging discussion (and when I say discussion I do mean that - last time I looked Mudcat was still a discussion forum not an argument forum). Though I have to hold my hands up and say that I too have ocassionally thrown a wobbler.

I think I'm a relative newbie, too, because I first posted (under my own name) in 2007.

There are still lots of good things about Mudcat, especially the database, but the endless sniping threads are not one of them. Can't really comment on the 'good old days' as I wasn't here...