DMcG, as far as I understand it, the Mudcat was a good place for academic research and maybe your right in suggesting that the new move from Joe Offer will help matters.

It reamins my belief that people like myself coming here and talking about anything (BS) has contributed to a decline and arguably has put some people of joining/ staying around. I'm still very much in favour of the new filtering wich I hope Max will introduce soon as I believe that will aslo help the situation in allowing people to have more of their own view of the forum, perhaps more in keeping with their own ideas of what Mudcat should be, be that pure music discussion or everything going (there is room for both).

While the post in rmc may have upset some and perhaps was a troll here, I hope it does give a little jolt and at least prompt people to question "is this a general feeling outside" and perhaps also look inward and reflect a little. I don't believe Mudcat can ever be perfection but I do believe it can improve a lot in all directions.

Jon