It started out with fixing HTML and such. "BS" didn't exist when I came on board. Max added that because one member complained (fairly nicely) that people were talking about non-music things. The "BS" was sort of a joke. But we could have tavern threads, and threads about movies and food recipes and everything else. Including politics - there were usually one or two threads about politics going at the time (mostly USA politics). Now, it's 99% impossible to have any discussion that doesn't turn into a fight. Thank you, Jim. So most Americans don't post. Most Canadians. The Germans and Australians and New Zealanders and Icelanders, an French, and Japanese, and Chinese, and probably other folks I'm forgetting. You see them around? They don't post in BS, they don't post in music. Just gone. So the "best" is when all that was possible - when we were the United Nations of folk - and the "worst" is because it isn't. Probably never will happen again. (But for one, brief, shining moment, there WAS...oh, nevermind.)

Ake, you couldn't understand then, and probably won't ever: it's not what you believe, it's how you presented it. It was how you treated people.
And people don't get "banned" from music discussions because, in most cases, we can't. We probably wouldn't, anyway. Max wants it that way.

...and Spaw, and Kytrad, and WyoWoman, and Bert, and Ernie (LEJ), and Katlaughing (Even though she got on my nerves sometimes) and Max. Mudcat is still Max, but how much have you seen him post?

But shit happens.

But I'd be happy if Max gets rid of BS. Right now, it's mostly a general-purpose battlefield.