BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?

Subject: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:21 AM

Are you happy with the way mudcat is run and organised?
Answer A, B or C
A=Yes, I think it's great, the moderators do a grand job, Mudcat is a valuble resource, [over 10,000 folk songs here, some very knowledgable and helpful people etc].

B=No, its rubbish, Joe is evil, the level of censorship here is ridiculous, and its an outrage, and I've a good mind to write to my MP/Senator, it's an absolute affront to free speech.


C=Don't know, or not bothered really.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:21 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:23 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:05 AM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:07 AM

Mudcat is great for researching music...also fun to play with on BS.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:27 AM

What purpose will this unofficial poll serve?

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:34 AM

A+

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: sledge
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:35 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: sledge
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:36 AM

Canadians don't need to vote, we already know what you are going to say, A.

sorry

Sledge

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:39 AM

Florida voters are excused

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:52 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:58 AM

A 9

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:08 AM

D

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: 42
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:13 AM

entertainment does not always make one happy...pensive, disgusted, challenged...

eh!

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:28 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: mooman
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:32 AM

AAAAaaaahhhh!

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:39 AM

Mostly A.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,dulcimer
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:46 AM

I'm not sure what D meant, but for me A.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:50 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:51 AM

E: It could be dramatically better. And had been, too, not that that has anything to do with it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Mooh
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:58 AM

Oooo...I love senseless polls!

A

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:19 AM

Zzzzzzzzzzzz....

For zelf-absorbed navel gazzzzzzz.....

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:25 AM

All right I'll try again. What purpose will this specious unofficial poll serve. After the last little bout of name calling, and leave takings, things have levelled out again, and people appear to be thinking before they post. Silly little polls like this give trolls etc carte blanche to launch another divisive attack.

WHY??????

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:38 AM

Well now Giok, to be fair...why do you even bother to ask? It's pretty obvious it's a thread designed to do exactly what you said above, right?

But hey, don't worry. Now the members can come spilling in by the droves and shriek "it's always the anon guests causing all our woes around here!" Just ask Joe Offer, he'll tell you...

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:46 AM

Everyone was posting without an issue Gork until you made your comments above, why bother?

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:58 AM

A

It ain't just about folk music. I come for information, to help others, to keep in touch with old friends, and to listen to the pulse of the folk music community. The real joy is you can turn it off if you want to and go elsewhere. I only wish I could always turn it on when I want to.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:04 AM

A

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:21 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:48 AM

A minor

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:50 AM

GUESTDate: 21 Sep 04 - 08:19 AM Said

"Zzzzzzzzzzzz....
For zelf-absorbed navel gazzzzzzz....."

Zactly!

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:27 AM

A-flat -- that is, yes with MINOR reservations

I really dislike the stupid arguments over what one should be allowed to "say" (write), but I often feel compelled to waste my time reading them anyway -- it's like watching a train wreck or picking a scab. That's when I am least happy with my Mudcat addiction.

I *mostly* like the moderators' attitudes, because their approach seems to be *mostly* "hands-off." I have been mildly annoyed when completing a post, clicking on "Submit Message," and then learning that the thread had just been closed. (This happened most recently when I felt compelled to jump to the defense of one Martin Gibson.)

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: alanabit
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:34 AM

A resounding A.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:35 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:38 AM

A for quality, D for cup size-- Mudcat is abundant and runneth over.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:38 AM

A, of course...I've been here 8 years!

when you go from 8-10 posts a day to hundreds, with MANY thousands of people reading, it only takes a few malcontents and trolls to change the apparent tone of things.
There are 10 million people in New York city, and 'most' of them are tolerable, but there seems to be one crazy in every block downtown, so when you go home, you remember not the thousands who passed by with no problem, but the 6-8 who shouted and begged and harassed.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:22 AM

A is for Amos
B is for Bobert
C is for 'Catters filled with charm
D it's delightful and
E it's educational
and F we really love it on the farm
G I think it's good for me
H it's so heavenly
I it's the one I idolize
J is for Sir jOhn from Hull
K is for Kendall
L is for the lovely lovely songs
M, N, O, P
I could go on all day
Q, R, S, T
Alphabetically speaking, the 'Cat's okay
U all make my life complete
V it's so very sweet
W,X,Y,Z
It's fun to wander through
The alphabet with you
And tell you what you mean to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Amergin
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:30 AM

yawn.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:33 AM

A, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:35 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:47 AM

Hey G is for GUEST

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 11:59 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Once Famous
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:10 PM

Depending on any given day or situation:

All of the Above

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:10 PM

jOhN's premise for the poll had to do with the design, layout, and administration, as I recall.

For that, A. I am covered with admiration for those aspects.

Rating of user input runs down from that, however, with the patent ill-will and argumentativeness that has increasingly intruded in recent times. So the content score ranges from A all the way down the alphabet.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:12 PM

A*

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:13 PM

great alphabet song, Sue.

A!

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: John J
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:27 PM

A (Hons)

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:36 PM

C ...

It's like watching an autopsy in progress.
Morbid curiosity, nothing more.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:40 PM

Speakin' of cup sizes, WYSIWYG, from the looks of these grades I'd say that it's being graded on a curve...

Ahhhh, isn't "D" usually either "all of the above" or "none of the above"?

I just couldn't find any one particular answer that seemed just right and therefore picked "D"....

Maybe I'll study better and take a retest later...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 01:17 PM

A

Russ (ever the guest)

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Nerd
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 01:50 PM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 01:51 PM

I vary between A on the good days, and C on the not so good days.

Mostly A, I'd say.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 02:02 PM

A+

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:31 PM

Always A for me.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Teresa
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:59 PM

A OK. If it were just any old ordinary place, I'd have some criticism, but what other Mudcat is there? :)

T

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Jack The Lad
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:09 PM

Wot orses heat.
JTL

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:11 PM

A. An Enlightened Anarchy, my favorite flavor.

I think it was Samuel Taylor Coleridge who advised us not to judge of a work by its defects. Whoever it was I'm with him.

clint

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: van lingle
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:49 PM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:38 PM

A38 ( or M5)

I live within noise range of the roads

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:39 PM

Since joining Mudcat, my skin has become silky smooth. I can wear black again, since Mudcat made my dandruff go away. It doesn't leave a soapy film on the bathroom tiles. My white clothes are whiter and the colors brighter, and there's no static cling. Mudcat stays crunchy in milk and for the kids, it's a healthy alternative to candy and pastry as an after-school snack. Would I recommend Mudcat to my friends? You bet!

OK, what do I win?

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:24 PM

"Two years ago I used your soap. Since then I have used no other..."

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:57 PM

A+

It's a big piece of my entertainment.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:10 PM

Nine out of ten owners said their cats preferred it.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: curmudgeon
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:16 PM

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++, ad infinitum!

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Mrs Olive Whatnoll
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:37 PM

I am reasonably 'appy wif Mudcat Cafe. It's way bet'ter than a foot in the gob! I've 'ad bet'ter times in the pub though...still it's not 'alf bad 'ere. One fing would improve it though. Just one lit'tle fing.

And that is...

If jOhn from 'Ull would bloody well sod off!

Then it would be just loverly 'ere, it would.

In the meantime I am givin' a grade of B- to Mudcat. Not 'alf bad, but room for improvement, like.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:44 PM

AAAAAAAAAAA's all the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Chris Green
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 07:46 PM

A - COS IT'S NEXT TO CAPS LOCK.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:08 PM

I'm very thankful for the Mudcat for many reasons. And I love the design and the features of it... I think they're brilliant. I don't have any opnion at this point in time about how it's being run and moderated.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:18 PM

14% fewer cavities, too...........

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:25 PM

C, although in some ways including the work of volunteers I would be tempted to give an A.

When you have been in situations like I have in that past it truely is difficult to care too much. Sometimes I even laugh when trouble breaks out here even though I know I shouldn't be like that and don't like myself for laughing (and I am not a troll or poster who tries to hide myself under the anon guest tag - I play straight and hope most of my contributions here are presented in a friendly manner and are constructive). To some extent with the nasty side though, I do believe MC gets what it has bred. To another extent, I do believe there are good efforts and contributions made here and there is much (VERY MUCH) to value. It's pretty much a mixed one for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:18 PM

A full stop

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: dianavan
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:43 PM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:48 PM

Ahhh, what would we do without the Mudcat.

For administration (organization and the like) I give it an A
For great source of information, musical and otherwise, for general entertainment, and sometimes much needed support-- also an A

For some of the content, a C--I'm not bothered because if it's not what I like I don't bother with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:33 AM

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:48 AM

A.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:53 AM

A
(except for Sir JOhn's spelling which is crap)

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 08:06 AM

A,I find it very friendly with other cats and informative.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:18 AM

So how many Catters are there in Polland do we know?

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:21 AM

What Kendall said.

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:30 AM

if you're happy with the mudcat clap your hands!

*clap! clap!*

If you're happy with the mudcat stomp your feet!

*stomp stomp*

If you're happy with the mudcat and you really want to show it

If You're happy with the mudcat...

SEND MONEY!

The Mudcat Café
PO Box 3006
West Chester, PA 19381

or Paypal [e-mail]

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: dwditty
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:31 AM

Eh!

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:05 PM

AAAA (it's an up'n'under!)

Subject: RE: BS: Poll-Are you Happy With Mudcat?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 08:17 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz