I was thinking about all the posts I had read earlier this AM, as I caught up with everything people had said since yesterday.

I was thinking about Greyeyes' post about how he got here and how he has changed as a member. And then I realized that to know if Mudcat is now a music site, or a BS site, one needs only ask, "To whom do you recommend the site?"

I have LOTS of BS friends in my life, and a few music friends. I can't recall every saying to someone, "Whoa, check out www.mudct.org for great political debates" or "Yeah we were debating that issue at the Mudcat place I know about, you should come over and join in."

I can't recall ever encountering a good resource, music or political, online, and writing them a message like "Come argue that philospohical thought over at Mudcat."

The only invites to Mudcat I have ever issued have been to the wonderful resource of musical information, and the forum as a means of discussing it... And I don't recall ever making an invitation like that and worrying that the recipient may see some BS at the top of the list and run off.

Changing? Yes, all things do. But Mudcat is still the only place I know where you can find AND discuss the information one wants as a musician. Those two facets of the site are, IMO, what makes Mudcat Mudcat. Not so much the people-- they come and go. But the structure of being able to discuss what's here, so easily-- THAT is still uniquely Mudcat.

And I would also like to remind people that even our most frequent BSers are MUSICIANS. They may not write about music much but I have heard their music, and they are just as wonderful in their music as those who post only about music.

So perhaps we might consider looking at Mudcat as a MUSICIANS site rather than a MUSIC site. It would be more honest.

~Susan