"If someone starts a thread to say how good theyare, then rest assured that others will come alingand kick the c**p out of them."

Isn't that just human nature, though? If you're going to complain about that, you might just as well complain about the weather.

A couple of months ago, an admirer started a thread on here praising my music, and sure enough the negative and abusive posts were soon coming thick and fast...I should know, I read every one. But the correct response to that kind of sledging is laughter; not self-righteous censoriousness (is that a word? it should be!). At the end of the day, if you put yourself on a stage, at whatever level, you expose yourself to the criticism, and perhaps the avarice, of others; and performers (and their defenders) just have to take it on the chin...or get off the stage.

Let the baby have its' bottle...(LOL)