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.

The reason that many knowledagble folkies have left Mudcat is that folk music too often takes a back seat to threads about how the Israelis are the real terrorists and about what color Mudcatters prefer for their underwear.