Joe, I don't feel I know enough about music to attempt a dtstudy thread although I am enjoying reading them and will throw my 2c worth when I can.
As for the perma threads, (and I've been your side of this one) go is it is difficult to understand or know what the originator is thinking in terms of or how to edit and I'm not sure we get the best we can from them...
To that end, I am quite prepared to provide a user with Mudcat like facilites on my site for preparing, editing, etc a permathread that, when completed (or updated) may be transferred to Mudcat as a post or posts and I'm also quite prepared to give help with HTML if needed and I have no problems with a user posting a "what do you think so far?" question here...
It would take some working out but I'm happy to believe that any one who joined any such effort would be doing so a) for Mudcat and b) not abusing my very limited resources.
Any thoughts from other sides?
Jon