Well it does seem a bit crowded at times up on the index page. It would be helpful if three things were done

a)people starting threads could try to be a bit more consistent in putting in the appropriate prefixes. - maybe Max could take the word "optional" out.

b)Maybe Max could add another possible prefix which people could use, if the thread they are starting doesn't fit into any existing categories. Maybe HB for Hybrid or Harebrained...

b)And is it possible to adjust the filtering thingy so you fould filter out categories - so that for example when any of us are so inclined they could get rid of the BS threads and prowl around the rest making unpleasant snarly noises from time to time.(Or can we do that already, but I haven't found out how to do it?)

But suggesting that there should b some formal way of culling the threads seems a bit like saying in a library - "there are two many books here - let's chuck out the ones I don't like" or in a party "there are two many people here - throw out the one's that don't look like me". Either way you'd have a fight on your hands, and serve you right.

Incidentally, I've been looking back through the archives, and it seems that this discussion has been going regularly under different headings as far back as they go. And you've always got someone saying that things were much better in the old days.

Perhaps we should have another new thread prefix for this and threads about what is folk music - I suggest - TRAD ... I reckon I'd gravitate towards them, they are another much loved part of the folk process in which I like to play my part...