What Jon and most of the others complain about so incessantly is that a long time ago, Max promised an update of technological aspects of Mudcat, and the addition of a number of new features. Situations changed, and the changes were not implemented. Ever since, our beloved trolls have ragged on Max and Mudcat for this failure. It has been announced that we're sorry the changes have not been implemented, and that we do not know when the changes will come online. So, why are people still complaining about unfulfilled promises? The criticisms have been expressed time and time again, and the promises have been withdrawn.

The fact of the matter is, technological changes, no matter how nice they may be, will have very little effect upon the functioning of Mudcat. If you don't like "BS" threads, we already have a filter available that will allow you to bypass all the BS. If you think we don't have up-to-date information on a song, you can refresh or start a thread on the song and post the information and solicit more - or you can start a DTStudy thread and have something that will be edited down to a solid, permanent record of the information about the song. If you think information is hard to find, post an index. If you think the DT has incomplete information about a song, start a DTStudy instead of wasting your time complaining about it.

Max is the owner of Mudcat and has control over the technological aspects of Mudcat - that's the way it is. We, the users, have control over the content of Mudcat. We can do far more than we have done, and I think it's a waste of time to complain about the "shortcomings" of Mudcat until we have made a significant contribution to its content.

-Joe Offer-