Over and over again, I see threads and posts where people want Mudcat to be like other online communities. It came first. It's unique. It doesn't need to function the same way later-conceived ones do. It evolves along its own line of development.

It's like a Mac user whining that a Mac oughtta be just like a PC. Aren't we smarter than that?

It's like a sheepherder asking why the sheep can't act like cattle. Aren't we smarter than that?

It's like suddenly agreeing with Rex Harrison's character: "Why can't a woman be like a man?" Aren't we smarter than that?


Now, that's not to say that I think our "mg" is doing that so much.

But the cumulative effect of all the clamoring, over time, IS like that.

Aren't we smarter than that?

Just because another forum's software makes it simple, does it necessarily follow that Mudcat's programming does? Or that Mudcat's volunteer admins would care to volunteer to spend the volunteer time-- to take Mudcat in a completely different direction from the direction it's on? (Aren't we smarter than that?)

~Susan