Katcina et al...Yer not hearing what I'm saying... people using 'handles' on the net are not the people I'm even remotely talking about, for the Umpteenth time!!!! What I'm talking about is the gutless flamer, troll, or spam merchant flinging thier crap all over the net... If yer on ICQ I know you know the sort of stuff I mean...
On any other decent MB on the net, that's the kind of stuff that Moderators worth their salt take the time to delete, just to keep the place uncluttered... and it's not censorship... it's housecleaning!!
Given the wonderful creature that the human race is, I can fully understand why some people (To say 'women' would be incredibly sexest, but no one here seem to mind that little tid-bit!!) want to remain behind their avatars... but at least use it consistantly... Have a 'created ID' that you use online... that's one of the fun things about the net... the chance to 'reinvent' yourself...
Mudcat isn't really an 'avatar' MB though... Mudcat is first and formost a tool for song, tune, lyric ect searches... the 'community', the Mb, is not, as far as I can see, the major thrust of Mudcat... and I've met plenty of people who don't even know there's a MB here... They come here, like I used to, to use the DB from time to time, and that's it...
Ya, know.. some days I wish I'd never set cyber-foot into this place... this "nest of vipers" to quote Basil Faulty...