The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51477   Message #785245
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
16-Sep-02 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Scholarship? new DT of any value?
Subject: RE: Scholarship? new DT of any value?
I thought that's what we were doing! That's the problem! We do it as a labor of love. We post corrections and additions of lyrics, translations of lyrics, history of songs, attributions of lyrics and music, and they are not incorporated into the searchable database. Newcomers are supposed to KNOW how to search the forum for items that have appeared in the last three years, and are dissed and patronized by some for NOT KNOWING how and where to look for info that should be in the DT. I am not in anyway disparraging the efforts and hard work of Dick and Susan et. al., just trying to get a consensus of what it is all for. What do we as a community of committed people want it to be? And if it is not to be that, we can decide how committed we choose to remain. I know better than to respond to trolls, and I ignore the BS threads as a rule, and I am not suggesting that these people who create & post to these threads go elsewhere for their fun and excitement, but that doesn't mean the entire site should be given up as one big joke fest.

I apologize for bringing Jean and Art into my last post, they can speak for themselves, I was not inferring that they themselves had been mistreated in any way, but was just using them as an example of people other than myself, who might be given more respect and credence than the rest of us, and asking if this is how we want to use their valuable resources.