Pip Radish

On another thread you (Snail) objected to the idea that you discourage bad performers,

I like to think that we encourage good performers and encourage performers to be good but I'm not going to make a big deal of it. Neither am I going to get drawn into a contemporary v. traditional debate. Each to their own.

I just think that when someone within the folk scene insists on telling the world how dreadful UK folk clubs are he is doing far more damage than any number of outsiders and that when I get lines like "he is prepared to advocate bad practice for other clubs" thrown at me I am entitled to defend myself especially when it comes from someone who has previously said "From what I have heard of your club, I heartily applaud what you are doing and wish that other clubs could learn from it". Jim appears to be deeply confused.