Heric, I didn't think starlings had hair!

Joe? We're AGREEING?!
Shoot me now! (I am not serious)

I keep watching these stupid reality shows, and I've noticed a couple things.

1) Whoever says 'I'm not here to make friends. This is a COMPETITION!' is usually gone pretty fast after that, and

2) When the judges or other authorities ask 'Why should YOU win this?' answering, 'because I really REALLY WANT it! I worked really REALLY HARD!' is just stupid. I'm guessing everybody really wants it and worked hard.

As much as I sympathize, what matters is effectiveness. I understand why people want to report stuff. I'm just saying wanting to isn't why they should. If it were effective, I'd be all for it. Mind you, if I'm going to get PMs from 17 people (all of whom expect a reply) saying 'xcVoPtiB posted a message about buying cheap Canadian cat nostrils 10 seconds ago. DELETE IT NOW!!!' I'll do it, but I want a raise, a 401K (are those worth anything these days?) and I'm not going to work on Saturdays and alternate Tuesdays. I really don't mind the odd PM about crap messages, but I'd rather not be inundated.

The Help forum was closed. I believe it was closed because it wasn't set up with the idea that messages might ever need to be deleted and trolls had found it a good hunting ground. Also, people were posting tons of 'delete this' messages and some seemed to be playing 'beat the clock' with moderators. I would get on line, delete spam, go to the Help forum and then read notices about stuff I'd just deleted. Many of those messages weren't intended to make Mudcat better, but to vent about messages that pissed people off. See, EVERYBODY'S honked off about something.

There will be trolls and spam. The messages will be deleted, but maybe not as fast as you want. And I know I will keep getting messages asking me to zap them. Hopefully, we'll keep the negatives to a minimum and not get too mad at each other.

(Joe it scans fine! You aren't syllabicating (OMG, that's a real word!) correctly. Bite me.)