you will find MANY very nasty comments about Mudcat and Mudcatters on there

Oh do come on, let's have a sense of proportion here. If you're of a paranoid disposition and have many, many hours on your hands to trawl through all the archived postings, you could probably come up with a few, but then likely you'll find references to what caused them to be posted in the first place. Just like here really, but in less volume and minus certain "characters", which may be interconnected factors.

On the other hand, why not use the time to get out an instrument and go and make some music, or organise a club or a festival, or run a magazine . . .