Since you are with us, you get to help us make the rules. Of late it seems that it is used for non-music related questions, comments, thoughts and stories. It may be like just a light conversation piece, or just killing time, or getting through a bad day, or anything non-academic (if you will). Or, just don't use it. It is what you make it. Don't sweat the rules, cause there aint none.
Max RE: Explain the BS rules 26 Oct 99

When Max explains to our forum something different to the above - I will expect the posting of BS on our forum to be undertaken on a different basis to what he has stated here.

Until then - posts containing judgements and imposed actions like the following example from a fellow poster upon a BS thread - will be thought by many posters to have no rightful place on our forum. Until when or if Max does decide to publicly explain a fundamental change in the traditional friendly and welcoming values of our forum and of the status of BS threads... Sadly there is no shortage of similar or worse examples of such imposed judgements.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72136&messages=60&page=1&desc=yes

I'm getting damn tired of trolls, and of the people who respond to them. I'm going to close this thread at least temporarily, and see if somebody can think of something else to talk about.
-Joe Offer-