"After my first or second post (I forget which) one of the regulars said - forget it, this ones not worth it! The kind of playground control freakery I hadn't heard since, er..the playground. What a welcome. Hilarious - except adults still think and talk like that."

Was this 'abuse' that you suffered in this thread, 'Glueman', or in a previous thread? I can't seem to find it in this one.

Anyway, you shouldn't take anything said on here too personally - it's only words, after all! For example, my position was equated with 'ethnic cleansing' on another thread - a position so ludicrous that, after bringing it to the attention of the poster, all I could do was laugh!

Seriously though, people who take the position that the folk genre is limited and definable are still being accused of being authoritarian and all sorts of other crimes. In my view this represents either an hysterical over-reaction or blatant mis-representation, and does not move the debate forward - this sort of thing is the true 'politics of the playground'.