Courtesy on the boards

[Patrick]

Insult people gratuitously and you WILL get banned. This site is a place to talk about Matador and the artists on the label - not to insult those artists or the employees. If you have a genuine grievance, we'll do our best to address it. But if you're mainly coming here to be offensive, we'll say bye-bye. "Fascist" my ass -- this is a private site maintained by a private company. You have free speech in your own blog -- see how long you allow people to come to your site and insult you.

Best
Patrick

[Tay]

blah blah blah.

[iamdavea]

Patrick, what you should have written--because it is obviously what you mean--is "this is a place to SAY NICE THINGS about Matador and its artists."

[Gerard]

"this is a place to say nice things about Matador and its artists".

Perhaps you can tell us about some other record label bulletin boards that tolerate as much pointed criticism of their company or their artists as this one?

This board has been happening for a loooong time and I can count only a handful of occasions in our history where individuals have been banned from this forum, and relatively few (given the amount of traffic) posts that have been removed.

We've allowed quite a bit of critical commentary where Chan Marshall's performances are concerned -- despite the fact we consider much (though not all) of it) to be mean-spirited and ignorant. Neither your nor "Tay"'s comments about Chan were removed, though the thread was closed. In my opinion, the subject had already been covered at length in previous posts and previous threads. If you disagree, by all means start your own site and/or message board, or flock to one of the many unmoderated forums that won't inhibit your free expression.

[bulgaria_mitko]

is this is official Cat Power forum??

[J_fancher]

no, it's a secret message center for the captain, captain furble, to be indeed.

[cherryburp]

fuck you

[cherryburp]

just kidding love monkeys