Nice to hear your voice again, bbc.

I don't think personal pictures and email addresses and locations and bios do anything but add favourably to the forum. (I never got around to sending in a photo, but it was on my 'to do' list.)

I'm going to copy/paste something I just wrote on a B.S. thread. I think it is relevant to this thread as well:

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Quote from AliUK: "the forum is for people with like minded tastes to get together and shoot the breeze, it just so happens that we like folk and blues too".

Don't you see, friends, that this is where the struggle lies? There is a very big difference between "...dedicated to folk and blues" and "just so happens that we like folk and blues too".

B.S. threads can be fun, and can be a way of getting to know each other as whole people.

But, just THINK about it. If "shooting the breeze" is your PRIMARY goal here, then you might be hurting the forum as much as a flamer. If you're bored, try reading and posting to a non-B.S. threads. There's a whole lot of worthwhile stuff going on in there.

~black walnut (ducking right now for cover)
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