am I an oldtimer? I've been around for s few years now, and I've seen the cycles. It seems to me this current cycle is long and particularly virulent - but I do agree that the sh*t comes and goes. Old folks fade, some leave - new ones come along; they love the music resource, enjoy a thread or two and then get involved (or don;t) in what I consider junk threads. I haven't bothered to look at the "what's your mama done for me lately" threads. Nor do I look at most threads - but I come her everyday and read the music threads - I occasionally respond - BUT I've started doing something that I strongly suspect other old timers do; when I have a music question in mind, the first thing I do is read the old threads. I probably spend as much time doing that as I do reading new ones. I occasionally bring the old threads back up, with a new comment or two.

It's true there isn;t always good stuff being discussed (at least good stuff that I care about)- but there's been good stuff talked about here over they years, and it's only a few keystrokes away!

I also dig a lot in the DT.