Trolling? I thought that was an amusing quote Shambles gave us from rec. music. folk, with just enough truth in it to be interesting. Nothing to get angry or over-excited about. The very use of the word "duffers" indicated a tongue in cheek element.

One of the things I like about the Muscat is that it's open house, and there's an acceptance of variations in expertise. I'd loathe a forum where when naive people get sneered at and made to feel they have no right to get in the two-pennyworth. I don't in any way feels that that devalues the real and impressive expertise on abstruse matters that shows up every now and again.

If there really are knowledgeable people who have got fed up with sharing the forum with people who know less than them, and have taken their ball home with them, or to somewhere else, I'm sorry they felt that way - but I think they miss the point. The best aspect of folk music is that for the most part it isn't like that.

As the Old Bill cartoon from the Great War put it "If ye know of a better 'ole, go to it." Which I have always understood to be an invitation to stay, and that's how I mean it.

Duffers welcome. And non-duffers.