BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:34 PM

Multiple personalities, in any case, eh??? LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: rock chick
Date: 14 Mar 04 - 06:43 PM

exactly, see all said in just two words, now why didnt i think of that Amos!!! no dont answer ;-0

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 08:11 AM

people & words!

There are some great people here - some I knew before joining (Bob Bolton who got me here, JennyG, Bruce from Bathurst, Canberra Chris, Alison, Callie, Chicky), some I encouraged to join (JennyO, freda), some I'll probably never meet (Giac), some I've met & others I will be meeting (Charley Noble, Naemanson, Moses, Bill/stables, El Greko), some who inspire me (Art Thieme, Jerry Rassmussen) - the list goes on

and the wordsmiths! I have always had creative friends (dollmakers, embroiderers, lacemakers, woodwrkers - people who created with their hands) but never known people who created with words - songwriters & wordsmiths. One of my collagues enjoys words as much as I do & I often send threads to him to share the laughter & wit (asterism is the new euphemism!)

As has been said above, Mudcat is addictive, however it's much better than any other addiction (well, maybe the chocolate lovers would say otherwise, but I don't have a sweet tooth)

In one word Mudcat is a community.

sandra

oh, I forgot the Digital Tradition, and the Mudcat CDs.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:25 AM

More than the vast amount of knowledge available here I particularly appreciate the helpfulness of people who are eager to share that knowledge. It even compensates for those OT threads that sometimes leave me wondering if we all live on the same planet.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:27 AM

I think we live on the same planet, dear, but I am pretty sure we do it in very different ways, which makes the mellerdrama far more interesting.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Flash Company
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 10:40 AM

I discovered Mudcat after my wife met an old singing friend of ours who mentioned it.
As someone else said i'ts addictive!
I look every day for the threads that interest me, and usually find something that I can comment on.
The great thing is, the originator of the thread can be on the other side of the world, or just in the next village, it doesn't matter, we all have the same interest in keeping the music flowing.
Great stuff!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 11:39 AM

you can sign in as a nom de plume and insult/annoy/generate discussion/say inane things/act daft/generaly be another person and noone knows who you are and have a good time doing it...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 01:51 PM

What I like is the brilliant interface of the forum/discussion board, where threads are brought to the top of a discrete list according to the most recent post, even if the thread was otherwise dead as of long ago. This design must exist elsewhere, but I have never seen it (I don't get around to forums much.) If anyone has seen a better design I'd be interested in taking a look at it.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 05:22 PM

Come on chaps, we need to get this positive reinforcement up to more posts than the negative thread!!

I like it because it's informative and a good way of spreading a little information a long way.

Next?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 06:37 PM

I LIKE CATS.

Jaysus, someone said that girls think guys who like cats are cool, suave, hot, sensitive, like that. So, how come I don't get any lacivious messages? Where are the girls who like guys-who-like-cats? I'm waiting for three more days. If I don't get any blatant signals, then screw the cats. I'll send them to the 'shoot the damn cat' game. You know, the sick humour thread, which by the way I think is really sick for only three more days.

I LIKE CATS.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 07:03 PM

I like it because all my personalities can find something to discuss so no-one feels left out.    That's our story, anyway.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 16 Mar 04 - 12:18 PM

I'll repeat the comment above about design :What I like is the brilliant interface of the forum/discussion board, where threads are brought to the top of a discrete list according to the most recent post, even if the thread was otherwise dead as of long ago

Other forums I am on do something similar - but I think the 'cat does it best.

The search facilities are the best I have run across on any bulletin board/forum. For all the foibles and quirks (and we all know the searches have them) I get better more consistant results with the searches on the cat then I do on any other site I've frequented.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:29 AM

Public Announcement

I hereby declare the following: Being of somewhat sound mind and body (OK, the mind's a little shaky and the body isn't anything to write home about so I'll start again): Being alive and breathing, and having received NO offers from ladies who are supposed to think that when a guy says he like cats that he's sensitive and all, I hereby declare that CATS CAN SCREW OFF!

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 10:41 AM

...hmmmm...

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 03:02 PM

Oboyoboyoboy -- are you in trouble!! The Administratrix of the Nubile Beauties Association was JUST about to enter your name in the "Approved For Bone-Jumping, Guaranteed Sensitive" column as Pure-D in the ole database, and you go and blow it!!! These things take time.   In your case, what might have taken just a few more days now looks to be about a century. Hang in there, good buddy!

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 03:18 PM

lmaorotf

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 07:36 PM

I'm with Mmario about "the brilliant interface " - it seem so simple and works so well, it must be devilish cleverly constructed. And not flashy, which a mercy. (Alright we have the crashes, but that's down to something else, poverty).

I've never come across anything comparable - compared to the Mudcat everything seems clunky, and I've looked. I mean, they needn't necessarily be about folk music - in principle any strong shared interest can be the glue for an online community. There've been quite a few threads where people have suggested other forums that exist, but they never even begin to measure up when it comes to the type of stuff Mmario mentioned.

And that's leaving aside the content and the people you come across, and the stuff other people have talked about in the thread. Once more, thanks everyone. (And confusion to the people who buzz in from time to time with the intention of trying to screw things up - though, I dunno, maybe even they have a role in helping us learn to recognise the traps and the pitfalls that could wreck the place.)

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,raindropsonroses
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 08:09 PM

Bobert - handsome, wry, cool, and SOOO left of any crap

katlaughing - free, wild & funny, smart and crazy

mcgrath - smart, smart, smart & self disciplined

Little Hawk - that mind goes out into the universe and back

sueb - blunt, concise, witty

leadinger - kind, smart, out there, practical

ellenpoly - open, warm, not stuck in a mental rut, moving and growing

micca - your way with words is magic, as are your eyebrows

cindy - don't see much of you, but you're a lovely soul

allan c - brave, talking about hard stuff, kind

jennyo - witty, wiccad, and warm

brucie - you're my man, you like cats

nurse ratched - like your style, woman!

...and thanks to all those wonderful elves of music, ghandarvas and goblins of gook, who lurk, leap, and lunge through the digitrad, piling on each day more knowledge of the delights of GHOSH!!!

and giok - put a bloody photo up man - you're so funny, i want to know who i'm laughing at!

...........whiskersonkittens.........

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,raindropsonroses
Date: 19 Mar 04 - 08:32 PM

forgot my fave....

jerry rasmussen.

jerry, .. you are such a kind, lovely man. the angels in heaven sing around and through you. thanks, man.

its a joy to sing along with you...


your cyber friend

raindrops

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 20 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM

I like the quiet threads, these have been very sustaining.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 06:49 AM

Ya see, brucie, me and the kitties KNEW we only had to wait you out for you to show your true colours...YOU'RE A DOG MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH..(must have instant gratification, looking for love in all the wrong places, and thinking we'll fall for the words rather than the deeds)...next time, scent your posts with tuna.....xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Amos
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 10:19 AM

Better yet, drive a Mercury, man! They're full of tuna these days, according to the press.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 10:33 AM

maybe some prawns in the curtain rods for that certain something..

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 04 - 01:32 PM

I had a dog named Ginger who would look for 'love' anywhere. Horniest animal I ever met. He was a stray that showed up one day, stayed for a year and disappeared. You would not believe what that mongrel tried to do to furniture, cars, anything that would stay still for longer than a few seconds. I watched him one day take a whiz on a tree, begin to saunter away, and then as an afterthought, he went back to the tree and--I will allow the reader to imagine the rest. Cats were afraid of him not because he barked--he didn't have a mean streak in him--but because he had a look in his eye when he chased after them. I don't know what eventually became of him, but odds are that he died happy.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: GUEST,Cat
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 02:44 AM

I like brucies..

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Leadbelly
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:19 PM

refresh-
Thanks to Peace this interesting tread was initiated more than 4 years ago.
In the meantime, are there any changes in attitudes, opinions aso about this great site? What do newcomers think about?

My personal judgement: depending upon my special needs, one of the best forums in the internet.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:30 PM

I love that the folks in charge have taken some steps to clean up the BS section. It makes it a better website for everyone. Dodge City it ain't. And I like it that way.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Skivee
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 03:53 PM

What I like about Mudcat Cafe?
It's the rich chocolatey flavor.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Rowan
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:35 AM

Chocolatey?

I found sugar, cream, chili, garlic, salt; even some bread!

I must come back for another taste to see if I can get chocolate

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: topical tom
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 06:38 AM

On Mudcat Cafe I get to interact with friendly, informative folk about our common love of music and other issues of common interest.Most everyone is helpful, friendly and I have learned a lot about songs and music and other matters.Long life to Mudcat! Let's keep carrying it on!

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: Mooh
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:14 AM

Mudacts Of Kindness:

The Mudcat was a surprisingly good way for my wife to notify folks when I was very ill last year, just as it is a good method of generating good deeds, charity, prayer, and thoughtfullness.

If we keep our perspective, it's a wonderful way of studying each other's nature, a broad cross-section of humankind.

Thank you friends.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: olddude
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:22 AM

cause the women are hot and folks like Spaw who can fart God Bless American in harmony with the other fellow who burps

Subject: RE: BS: What I like about Mudcat Cafe
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 08:57 AM

I find it amusing that if you have a complaint about Mudcat, Joe asks us to PM him direct, but the reverse is not true.

JM



It's a joke BTW