And another thing-- at the risk of causing a big thread lurch....

Before the BS went below-line, it seems to me a lot of people frequenting the forum would skim the daily thread list looking for interesting topics. If you were bored, and had no fresh music ideas of your own to start a thread over, you'd open up music threads to see what the heck someone was talking about. As often as not, a music thread title would be as interesting as what later came to be labeled a BS topic.

So these music threads would be opened and sometimes some pretty interesting discussions emerged.... sometimes these would lead to links back to other real interesting music threads..... a really cool thing would be when people didn't actually know much about the music topic of the thread, and they'd ask questions, and people would come along in time and answer them, and all KINDS of cool stuf would get added to the thread, or links to stuff elsewhere like sound samples....

I miss that stuff. I like BS threads and I like the forum split, but I wish people would look above-line more and even just open random music threads and participate in the discussion beyond the "me too" or "hey Jane your panties are showing" kinda posts in them.

~Susan