Some confusion here originating from (my guess) gargoyle's unfortunate choice of an expression.

The first post makes sense when you understand gargoyle's 'length of the ...' as meaning not a specific single thread (or some threads) but the number of music threads requiring scrolling before seeing them all.

So his plea is for a further subdivision of threads and not for shorter music threads. Then he proposes (tongue in cheek?) starting with a subdivision for the Hull threads. John doesn't see any humour in that remark and starts multiposting in defense of Hull (threads).
That cannot be meant seriously for it would only eliminate very few thread (between two and five) from the whole number of threads.

However, it is an idea which can be discussed without any rage. I'm against it, by the way, for I am glad with the present system. And the Hull threads? Since the onset of self-controlling the number of those threads they don't bother me anymore. I even open one of them from time to time.

Wolfgang