What is going on here?

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:30 PM

One remarkably nasty bit of graffiti from a nameless source(and there's no way to stop that, it's the nature of the medium) - but the rest was pretty friendly. A bit suspicious maybe at times, but there's a history to that.

Ol' Bill in a first world war shellhole said "If you know of a better 'ole, go to it" - I'm not saying that, because it's not a welcoming thing to say. But if you know of a better 'ole on the Internet, let us know. I've found nothing approaching the Mudcat when it comes to quality of information and quality of friendship and of interesting argument. It'd be good to have something to fall back on on the occasions when the Mudcat crashes.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: Selma or Patty
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:15 PM

In the 90 minutes that have passed since I started this thread, my observations about Mudcat have proven true, just in this thread.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:11 PM

And I was on the run and missed that Selma or Patty had joined, not posting a GUEST.

(Actually trying to get some work done for a change and multi-tasking.)

Whoever you are, and whyever you posted-- this is a good forum. I hope you will be a positive contributor.

~Susan

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: GUEST,James
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:58 AM

Guest...identify yourself...it is just a matter of curtesy, don't you think ?

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:53 AM

the problem is the bleeding heart mudcatters who see every second song or joke or expression as a slur against the blacks, the jews or the gypsies.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: sledge
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:45 AM

Patty, put out a request for help and you will soon find out how many nice folk are on the Mudcat. From what I've seen so far it need not even be about music.

Sledge

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:45 AM

Could we just let this die - 300,000 posts and counting. This serves no purpose and I apologize for continuing it with this post. There is another re:MichaelK - let it die. Please.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:40 AM

We get a bit paranoid sometimes about people stirring things up, and sometimes that is appropriate - for example, I suspect that GUEST James is a stirrer.

It gets a bit loud here, and a bit heated at times -rarely nasty. Sometimes there are real disagreements, and its not a bad idea to get them out in the open, and see if there is some way around them.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:33 AM

Selma or Patty

Hang in there/here! Just watch out for threads that interest you , mark them with TRACE and concentrate on those, doing the odd trawl for new ones to add to the list. You'll soon develop an instinct for what/who/where to avoid. If you're interested in the music, the pluses outweigh the minuses.

Regards

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: Selma or Patty
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:27 AM

Excuse me, but my REAL name happens to be Patty.

The person who told me about Mudcat Cafe said that I should make up a nickname that's based on my name.

I happen to be a very positive person, I do not smoke and I do not allow smoking in my home. My children are both in college and doing very well.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:17 AM

And they smoke around the children.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 11:06 AM

Aw, they gotcha. Selma and Patty are the two disgruntled, complaining, crabby, negative-minded sisters of TV's Marge Simpson. They hate everything Marge holds dear.

~Susan


D'OH!

~Homer


Why can;t we all just get along and play jazz????

~Lisa


BITE ME!

~Bart


(suck suck suck)

~Maggie


It's the Itchy and Scratchy Shooooowww.....

~Susan

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: Tinker
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:53 AM

I have to agree I'm glad I stumbled in hear a few weeks ago. The last few days were a bit off, and I'm glad a few threads have disappeared. I spent the last two weeks handing out the web address to everyone I knew who had similar interests. Including the reference libraian for Episcopal House (The Diosease of Newark!) I'm really hoping that they've been too busy to check things out and that things will get back to the more TOC, intelligent, and warm community I was talking about.

It wasn't till I was reading last night that I realized that some refreshed threads weren't just to help me learn why NPR might not want to recognize music from the first three decades.
Please go back to what you do best
Really Selma and Patty it's great!

Of course my Three Piece suit husband is now grinning and threatening to grow up and be just like Spaw ....Just what did I get into???


Tinker

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:48 AM

What threads have you not been reading. I see what you see but the nice thing about the site is that I can choose not to see some things. Sure, there are some nasty things being said. Some of them are spoken in haste and others out of sheer mean spiritedness.

But, and this is important, there are a lot of very nice things being said here as well. Keep looking.

Oh, and welcome to the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:48 AM

Selma or Patty - the MudCat like any other group - goes through periods of tension. And though it is neither a defense nor excuse, if you think the Mudcat has nastiness you should see other forums on the 'net. I have never seen as much nastiness at the 'cat as I routinely see on most other forums I monitor.

Subject: RE: What is going on here?
From: GUEST,James
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:46 AM

Well, most of us are very nice people. We often disagree, but that is natural ...and healthy. I wish you would give us an example of this natiness and hate that you see,

Subject: What is going on here?
From: Selma or Patty
Date: 18 Sep 00 - 10:42 AM

I am quite flabbergasted.

On Saturday night, I was at a coffeehouse folk music concert and someone told me about Mudcat Cafe. He said it was full of nice people who all love folk music.

Well, in reading through the Forum threads over the past two days, I've been amazed at the extent of the nastiness and outright hatred that runds through so many of the threads.

I'm sure that most of you are very nice people, but this does not seem like a very nice place to me.