Moonchild.

It is nice to see you here and read your views. You find that you are contributing to the very kind of thread you think is not a good thing. Please don't take that wrong, for you are very welcome to the club, for we are all at least, consistent in our inconsistency. It is a difficult subject to deal with, is it not?

You say "For heaven's sake, folks, you are taking up memory by starting and posting to yet another thread discussing how to deal with flamers and non-musical threads. It's been said at least a hundred times before ... same subject, same words. Cease and desist and get on with reading and posting to those threads which you find interesting and leave the other threads, which you do not find interesting, to others"

The point I was trying to make is that, this subject IS interesting, if not very pleasant. It has not all been said, especially as those newer posters need to have their say. An example of this is the very welcome contribution here from Melbert, which makes some very good points indeed. Views from a newer poster must ALWAYS be welcomed, on this subject as on any other and it must be accepted that THIS SUBJECT, is exactly the same as any other subject. It may be tiring, for some, to see yet another What Is Folk, thread but to some it is their first time. Who are we to deny the joys or otherwise of our 'first time'?

Responding to the flamers makes it worse, yes. What also make it worse is the reaction and the perception, rightly or wrongly, that there is a 'core group' that would impose a perceived view that, everything has been said and that talking about only it makes it worse', on other contributors. This is a free forum for discussion and that is its purpose.

I may not agree with your views but I do respect those views and the courage it takes to 'go against the flow '. Thank you for stating them here.