Jeri, I am new here and chatting in threads did not turn me away. In fact I quite enjoy it but in the music threads, I believe that we must not lose sight of the fact that answering the question is by far the most important part.

I had forgot about this until a few days ago but I had visited Mudcat on a suggestion from SingsIrish a while before you had made me aware of it. I don't know if I had picked on a bad day here or whether it was me having a bad day but nearly all I seemed to be finding were BS threads and that did put me off and I didn't return. Much as I enjoy the social chat, the musical discussion is far more important to me (and I would suspect just about everyone here).

I have read a couple of people suggesting that one should simply ignore rude anonymous postings. Perhaps one should ingore rude postings anyway but I suppose if somebody hasn't got the guts to admit to who they are when making an insulting remark, they are certainly not worth listening to. The trouble with me is that if I received that type of flaming, I am quite likely to react back calling the poster a spineless coward but I don't think my language would be quite that polite.

Jon