The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48605   Message #731273
Posted By: Max
17-Jun-02 - 02:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat accounts and commitee?
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat accounts and commitee?
Please don't bother defending me. I build and upgrade this site for your (my) enjoyment. Defending me when upgrades are late, and defending me when upgrades happen and some things don't work quite right because we rushed it, and defending me when some folks just don't like the changes, is just taking away from your enjoyment.

Just enjoy it, let me take the heat. That is why I'm here, I actually enjoy the responsibility. They want to hate me. They are going to hate me, that's a given (I say hate instead of criticize because there is nothing constructive here). No need for you to get involved and be a target too. Threads and comments like these never bother me. I read them, and I absorb them, and I learn from them, but I never take them personal. No need to worry about me. If it took away from my life rather than benefiting it, I would just shut it down.

The critics just don't understand it, even after explaining it, because, as you can see by this thread, they only talk, never listen. I get more out of a 300Mhz machine than probably anyone ever has. Not only is Mudcat a technological marvel, but also social marvel. From so many countries and so many states, so many religions and so many beliefs… and what we argue about most is the Web site that brought and keeps us all together? I'd call that victory. I DO call that victory.

Let me worry about this stuff. Let me design and host the site to the best of my ability and to the best that it serves my self-interest. I am very comfortable with what is and what will be. It is a Web site, it is MY Web site. It is one of many collection and delivery mechanisms of the DigiTrad (of which I have neither control nor input). The Mudcat is what it is, and it is what I want it to be.

So you see that it serves the community, that the focus is on me. The defenders merely enlarge the target with their diversity.

The arguments here are absurd. Dogma. I am surprised that anyone is taking them seriously.

And some of you are right, I can do better… and I'll try to do so. I'm sorry Jack, and Thank You.