Don't for a second interpret this as a lone indictment of guest posting. Those members complaining turn my stomach as much, if not more, than the guests.

The sense of entitlement to a free Web site, the vitriol, blatant disrespect and levels of contempt in the criticism and complaint --without actually ever just leaving mind you, is classless.

Any time I am forced to go below the line and peak momentarily into this BS section, I am appalled at humanity at large. These conversations make you look like terrible people.

Little Hawk, I already too strained and tainted by all this feckery to bother to interpret your tone, but in short: Yes. Please go to Facebook. Facebook accepts and then owns all the content you post on it. And what seems as unstoppable as our household refuse, you can dump all this bullshit on Facebook.

Mudcat is a free traditional music archive and we keep all the data free and public, at my expense. Unlike Facebook, we stake no claim of ownership and make sure it shows up in Google searches so that it can be found again and again for free.

All I care about is the traditional music information and the flesh and blood friends that I have and continue to meet because of this site. I don't care what you all think your rights are or what you think is fair on my Web site. I don't care which side of what argument you are on. I don't care who called who what.

The moderators and I are not paid a wage for what we do here. In fact we spend our own money to host and deliver the songs, the lyrics, the stories, the jokes and all of your bullshit. And you all take that for granted and treat us like shit and use endless amounts of time on complete bullshit. We're tired of it.

In summary, get your shit together, read and contribute to a music thread once in a while, remind yourself this is a free web site that you can stop going to any time you want, treat your moderators better, or get the fuck out.