Sometimes they're just ordinary sods who've pushed the wrong button, and don't know there way round yet. But otherwise I think Amos has them summed uop accurately enough.

As for the suggestion that people shouldn't feel free to ask sensible questions about how the site works, and should have to bother Max instead, that is daft. If one person is having a problem, so are other people, and an open posting means that the others can get advice as well - and we can all learn more about the resources available to us here, which are considerable and at times cobnfusing. Also advising newcomwers how to do stuff is a way of helping both us and them feel at home here.

Ah sweet mystery of Mudcat. I know what you mean, Metchosin. Perhaps if people dressed up and put on disguises or masks for the pictures sometimes...Bruce Wayne and Batman posting separately. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.(Though I think we might have that already...)