That's clever and worked a treat WYSIWYG - got rid of all the threads labelled BS.

Only trouble is that a very high proportion of the threads that came through were still very much BS, so it doesn't solve the problem for the BS-phobes.

I'm not one of them, because I wander happily between the BS and the music ones. (And in fact there are plenty of music ones which could quite appropriately be termed BS, and a good few non-music ones where it doesn't really seem too appropriate.) But I recognise the problem of people who can't find what they are looking for in the crowd. Recognise the problem, but most of the suggested solutions really introduce what I would see as greater problems.

Myself, if there was suddenly some policy of excluding non-music threads, I'd probably spend a lot less time here. The magic music threads are always outnumbered by ones which might be formally about music, but don't have too much of an enriching quality - for example, the listing ones, "who is your favourite etc". They have their place,and you can find out people who you wouldn't have otherwise. But to trust somebody's judgement, you need to have some understanding of them, and you get as much as anything from the BS threads, I feel.

It really would make life easier if everyone made a point of labelling any thread they started, and giving it an informative subject title. But they won't. Maybe one answer is to avoid opening any thread that doesn't have a label - such as this one. It might means missing some interesting discussion and explorations, but if enough people did it, maybe some of the non-labellers would get the message. I think I'll do that.