I don't know abuot anyone else but if I support something financially or if there is something that I WOULD support financially if I could, then the stakes go up for me. Mudcat as a whole is a conglomeration of all of the personalities that hang out here. If I feel strongly enough to want to support it financially, wheter I can or not, then I may hang around more, which means that the conglomeration has a little more Frank in it (scary huh?). Before Mudcat becomes a place that looks down on those who can not support financially, it would have to lose a lot of its personality first, and that just ain't gonna happen. Yeah, some of the names around here are more recognizable than others like Max, Spaw, Joe Offer, Bert, Big Mick, Mousethief, Sinsull, kat/katlaughing, WYSIWYG, etc. etc. (big mistake, too many to name!) but that's just cause they've been here a long time.

You started a good, thought provoking thread here, the kind that seems to get a lot of attention. I say, get yourself a Mudcat name, keep starting the threads, and let us have a big 'ol welcome to the Cat thread for ya John.....whatdaya say????

Frank