McGrath, Mudcat does indeed have magic possibilites. The real shame is that people are far too short sighted in their outlook.

The basic problem remains and has existed in all my time here:

We have a mix of people here, some who want to see purely music, others who like a mix but would prefer not to read some of the more inane stuff (that is where I sit) and some who like anything goes.

The technology exists to make life more bearable for all parties but for whatever reason, Max does not wish to implement any such change here...

Given that people are aware of differences amongst other posters here, the view could be taken, particularly in view of the 1 forum that maybe a compromise situation amongst us posters would be sensible but the prevailing attitude here is "if I want to talk about farts, I can and fuck everybody else - there not inconvenienced, they should just skip it, etc."...

Because of the above, we end up in these otherwise easily avoided perpetual rows. Mudcat will continue to muddle through them and even some of the "lost" faces come back if under different names, etc but why do they come back?

My theory is that it has little to do with the current Mudcat community but because of the presence of the dt - the main source for lyrics and something that is guaranteed to stimulate new conversaition. There is also the legacy of past threads here - threads that some of the more sholarly contributers have made great input to - do you think they want to see that wasted?

Max is exceptionally generous in hosting this site - I know of no one else that would be willing to take it on but he seems to fail to respect the hard work of other contributers here - those that have built up the useful stuff.

Also, he seems to want a community but fails to consider any moves that could allow both the music side and the community side to flourish more. I admire Max on his free open policy and many things but I still fail to understand why on this - even a simple thing like asking people to use prefixes would help...

Many BS posters seem to forget that much of what was built was built on music, the efforts of some who are not comfortable with BS and give that little consideration (not to say they don't love music) - it realy is like the invasion of a session with chatters at times... and it is probably true to suggest that in the main, the chatterers would not be here if it hadn't been for the efforts of the people they seem to think don't matter...

Jon