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I think since I was quoted out of context of a long interview, I'd at least include the complete question and answer that Bobby only partially quoted. If anyone is going to be pissed off at what I said in an interview, at least know what I actually said:
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Indie-Music: Is JPF for all musicians/players? Or do you focus mostly on songwriters?

Brian Austin Whitney: JPF started as a songwriter organization because there really weren't any "musician" organizations to model ourselves on at the start. But we quickly transitioned into more and more artist focused activities and now in truth we're probably more of an artist organization than a pure songwriting organization such as Muses Muse or NSAI. That said, we have one of the most active songwriting critique and feedback sites in the world on our message boards. But we spend a lot of time helping artists develop their contacts, learn their craft and the business behind it, learn how to sell CD's get gigs, book tours and avoid bad deals as well. We have an amazing array of songwriting educators on board to help educate songwriters and we have a wide array of events and activities designed to help artists and industry folks. I think we offer something for everyone. And when we don't offer something, we often refer folks to our friend's sites who do (like Indie-Music for example).
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I answered her question because she thought, as many do, that we ONLY supported songwriters and not artists at all. Since that's not true, I stated we were more of an artist organization than PURELY a songwriter organization. I have worked very hard to be a place that artists felt didn't ignore THEM. The truth is that biggest fault of NSAI and other songwriting only sites is that none of them spend much or perhaps any time helping artists. Since 98% of our artist members are ALSO songwriters I thought it was very important to help them in ways no one else even tries to.

That's the context of that response that was only partially quoted above. (The entire interview is linked on the general message board).

As for drafting guidelines for the new message boards, I am perfectly fine with that. We'd have done that much earlier but this ancient board doesn't allow for things like Sticky Notes.

Brian