BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Bert
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:37 AM

Money.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Deda
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 11:18 PM

I think this place runs amazingly well, whack-jobs and all.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 11:06 PM

And you've had them for what, more than a year now....

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:35 PM

The advertising and such helps, but not a whole lot. Yes, we do need money. We know exactly what we want to do, but we have some issues to resolve first.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:30 PM

Max doesn't need money. He has advertising. See the bottom of the page.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:27 PM

I'm thinkin Peace, I'm thinkin ... thinkin' I gotta give this some more thought.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:16 PM

Hey. If GUEST posts are good enough for GUESTS, then GUEST posts are good enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Janie
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:00 PM

Steroids.......?

No!

Wait!













VOTE FOR PEDRO. No?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:54 PM

I'm shocked gnu ... utterly shocked !!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: bobad
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:51 PM

You are forgiven, my son.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:50 PM

Very well put. I plead guilty as charged up.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:46 PM

"I am realizing that even though food fights in the lunch room are fun, they don't amuse the janitor, or the teachers, or the other students.... :D Grant me the grace to remember this under provocation, next time."

.. good one Amos ... well put !

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:44 PM

What real reason do you need not to register ... if your shy, scared take your time before you post .... it's a shame why one has to be scared anyway, I noticed people here do accomdate and welcome new members .... and usually it's the GUESTs who exhibit malicious attacks.

I also know of some forums where you have to register before posting .. and it works very well.

I find this forum exceptional ... I also appreciate the different views and appreciate opposing arguments ... but eliminating the GUESTS would get rid of a lot of excess garbage posts and inhibit malicious attacks.

I will admit I have posted under GUEST (I'm the Ghost of) and I'm sure a number of others here have also, let's face it it can be fun at times ... but I can see that in doing so you it can contribute to abuse and sinister deceit.


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:42 PM

Yeah; but I don't think anonymity, while it is the most irritating thing about guttersniping, is the cause of any woes. The individuals who forsake all manners, all etiquette and all courtesy in order to dramatize their mis-attributed angers are the core of the problem, and the steadiest long term answer I know to that is continued and steadfast courtesy and peer pressure.

I am realizing that even though food fights in the lunch room are fun, they don't amuse the janitor, or the teachers, or the other students.... :D Grant me the grace to remember this under provocation, next time.

A

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:41 PM

There is always one, huh? Always . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: GUEST,Willie Dewitt
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:39 PM

Ahem!    "How can we help make the Cat run better?"

Set its tail on fire...!

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:38 PM

Max don't need to provide nothin to nobody... do the math... and send your thanks to Max.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:27 PM

not 'register'...but CHOOSE a name, even if you don't accept a cookie...no just 'plain' guests. There ARE reasons to allow posts by those who are new, scared, or who have real reasons for not using a registered name....I KNOW of a couple of forums where you can't post without adopting SOME name.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:05 PM

"Making it mandatory to register and having to 'sign in' to post. No more GUEST posting."

Since that's been seconded, I will third it.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:03 PM

Max is the strategy-setter and high-level design dude for the site. He really is the only one who can provide full answers.

How do you know he can provide full answers? AFAIK, he never has.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 05:22 PM

It's not a new idea...   But it'd sure do wonders for Mudcat...

So would some IP banning if the people running the place knew how to do it

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 05:04 PM

Hey - Number 6. That's a great idea !

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 05:02 PM

Yeah right. Shame one of your revered members is the wonderful mr. gibson. Some of us don't feel the need to join that number. Have any threads been deleted recently due to guests?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 04:14 PM

Making it mandatory to register and having to 'sign in' to post. No more GUEST posting.

That would make it better.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 03:39 PM

Medical science can't cure the wound that "Guest" has dealt me....

But I'll take the benefit!

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 03:33 PM

Clinton - best wishes for a speedy recovery. Prehaps if we held a benefit concert to help with the medical bills you will have to deal with ?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 02:44 PM

Good on ya lefty. Keep yer eye peeled for the auction, too. Some pretty neat stuff can be had and it all helps the Café.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 02:07 PM

Oooo... I've been 'insulted' by an idiot guest... whatever shall I do?!?! I do declair I might be overcome with emotions... quick... someone fan me, or else I fear I shall expire away....

Oh the pain... oh the anguish... However shall I go on with the rest of my life.... I guess I may as well just lay down right here and die of nothing more than the loss of the will to live....

Naaah... Better to live, and get enjoyment out of poking morons like you with sticks

        
schadenfreude... It's not just for the clergy anymore

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 01:57 PM

That's what we do with shits like you CH

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 01:37 PM

You may as well have just flushed your money

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: leftydee
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 01:35 PM

OK, i finally woke up and saw the SUPPORT THE CAT on the homepage. I just sent a donation thru Paypal. Quick and easy!! How 'bout you?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 01:17 PM

Which only means that he's an Intelligence. Personally, I think he's a minor subroutine, albeit a very intelligent one and his coder should be congratulated.

I ran this statement:

SELECT FROM clones WHERE lastname = "Offer" AND WHERE dna = "1"

and got the response

NULL SET RETURNED.

Ergo, Joe Offer is a subroutine, not a flesh-and-blood person.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:58 PM

Joe Offer passes the Turing test! I have tested him personally....

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:58 PM

Leave it alone... if no one came here, this place would have no problems....

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:53 PM

Nah...he may be a subroutine, but there's nothuing artifical about his intelligence! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:50 PM

I don't think the 'cat has become anthropomorphic to that extent yet. I might be wrong. After all, the vote is still out on whether or Not Joe Offer is just an AI sub-routine

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: GUEST,G
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:48 PM

After reading a recent post of Dounels' and a couple others, what about the consideration of posts backed by fact, not feeling. Is it possible the the 'Cat' is ashamed of displaying those baseless posts and is reluctant to do so. thus slowing down the operation?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:44 PM

It requires money, and time, in the hands of Max and Jeff, I think. In point of fact, it is running faster than it has in years past, and handling much more traffic.

Max is the strategy-setter and high-level design dude for the site. He really is the only one who can provide full answers.

A

Subject: RE: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:43 PM

MOney never hurts - If Max has *EVER* had so much as 50% of the annualoperating costs covered I would be very surprised (let alone his own time)

Subject: BS: How can we help make the Cat run better?
From: leftydee
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:34 PM

What will it take to get the ol' Mudcat to run better? I know it frustrates everyone. Will money help? Is there something I can do to my computer? I'm sure if there's a solution a lot of folks will be willing to help out.