The best thing about this place, is also the thing that gives us a bumpy ride It, is evolving all the time. Mudcatter's are also learning how to cope and adapt with it. 'Catter's' tend to like the place to be exactly how it was when they were first attracted and made to feel comfortable here. We all, to some extent, quite naturally want to try to keep it that way. It is those that would fight the evolutionary process the most, and the reaction to those attempts that cause most of the (avoidable) unpleasantness.

'The old curmudgeons' found a sanctuary here and I came a little later and I too liked the forum as it was then. This is the period in Mudcat History that will be known as Mudcat B.C. or Before (the) Condom (thread).

It was not a 'golden age', for the folk had already overtaken the blues. It is to Max's credit that he just 'rolled with it' and set the very best example to us all.

I think that the forum it is 'getting better all the time' (to steal the words from an old folksong), with every new poster that feels welcome to stay and ask ,"what is folk?

I did make the mistake of trying to keep the place the same as I initially found it and have some bruises to show for it. It is part of the learning process and this is all pretty new. I now just enjoy what I enjoy and pretty much leave others to enjoy what they enjoy. If, I were to consider that someone is inhibiting posters in any way, I may be tempted to contact them personally but trying to impose our model of the forum, on others publicly, is counter productive. Just………………….'Roll With It'

Yes some of the names you see as regular posters on the older threads are not here now but the remarkable thing to me is how many of them are still here (or still lurking) and how many good new ones are being gathered on the way.

It is the example set that will eventually determine 'the nature of the beast' and it is yet, a 'baby'.