Hurray for the change. And if actual music threads could be sorted out from all the ones which are BS and not labeled as BS, that would be even better. Threads about birthdays, how to address audiences, how to get gigs and the like are no more musical than the political threads.

I do not understand how anyone could reasonablly object. Suppose Joe gets to decide what material is BS and what is not. So what? People who want to read the political stuff are free to do so. The right to free speech is not a right to prominent placement of one's statements. It made it hard, for those of us with little time, to find the musical threads.

And yes, McGrath, political threads were always in the minority. But they were also always right at the top, and interminably long. And threads that are actually about music are an even smaller minority.