On some of those other forums, sIx, you may know them by a certain name, but they probably have different names if they participate as regular posters.

Being known has only made some of us targets for a few malcontents. Had I to do over, I would have stayed anon. or used a different name. In the old days, before we clones, we had the Mudcat Elves who were folks who actually worked at Max's former dot com, OnStage Media. we didn't know much about them,;we knew the first names of a couple who appeared on Mudcat Radio, but for the most part they were anon and there was no question of what they did.

Also, things have changed a lot since we clones came into being. At first we were needed, mostly, for fixing html mistakes, adding linebreaks, deleting duplicate postings, etc. Then came the great upgrade where a lot of those things became easier or automatic. As the site grew, we've added more moderating in the form of watching for attacks, etc. With more people the pot seems to get stirred more and more.

kat