Big Mick, McGrath, et al

It isn't a question of stay vs leave. This is a website I come to read the posts that interest me, and then it is on to the next folk forum. I don't feel the need to stay or leave, in the sense that many members here seem to feel. As I said, I find the cafe analogy works for me, though I recognize the community analogy works for others. If people could get a grip on that difference, it would be much easier for them to see that all anon guests aren't malevolent, and that everyone need not be a joiner. All malevolent guests aren't anonymous guests, and vice versa. McGrath's suggestion that people stop the paranoid behavior of seeing every malevolent guest post as coming from the same person is well advised.

As to my posting habits, what I meant was I've posted more in the past six months than in all my years of mostly lurking at Mudcat combined, and it has been mostly in regard to the degradation of the forum in the past year. I think the difference is much more striking to those of us who aren't here on a daily or even weekly basis. I come and go a lot to the on-line forums anyway. I can go months without looking in. Sorry if I didn't make that more clear.