No.

1) Virtually all abuse happens on BS threads. Guests, believe it or not, sometimes have worthwhile contributions in music threads.

2) Are you talking about Guest Larry K, or just Guest? Larry K should be able to post.

3) There's a very fine line between heated argument and abuse. I suspect the moderators will not want to step into that quagmire, nor do I blame them.

4) We can be, and to a large extent are, self-policing. I never use bad language and my estimation of a person goes down when they do--I believe it shows a poverty of vocabulary, and possibly of intellect. But though I'm against gutter language, this can be addressed by thread participants, and I do so. We're all adults here, some perhaps at arrested states of development, but we can handle this issue ourselves.

5) Anonymous" Guests" (no handle)----- (in my opinion in BS threads should be labelled "Ghosts"--perhaps this could be suggested)----- provide inadvertent humor by arguing with each other.



It's a wild and wooly forum and better for being that way. The old solution is still the best--if you don't want to read a thread, don't. There are lots of threads I never read. If people are leaving the forum, I'm sorry, but I can't believe it's the music threads. Music is the main focus of the forum, but in BS threads, politics, especially this year, will be a focus. Discussions are not always calm. Nobody need ever read a BS thread so nobody need ever be outraged.