I refreshed a few more, again with no responses. I've noticed that some poor souls just start a new thread with the same title if their original one has disappeared off the list.

And I don't want to hear any whining from people who can't find their conversational threads in the flood of awful requests for lyrics - which would only prove the point I made above about throwing too many threads on the list being the equivalent of drowning out other conversations.

Bert, I don't want to censor or complain (too much) about threads in which I'm not personally interested, but as you can see from the fairly long list of refreshes, some basic requests for lyrics ARE falling by the wayside.

I guess it's a matter of why the Forum exists. It has evolved into an on-line community, and there's now a critical mass of people who like it that way (myself included). I don't want it to change back; I just think that the members of the community need to be a little more sensitive about the ORIGINAL stated purpose of the Forum as well, to provide help in finding tunes and lyrics.

cringing behind my asbestos shield, waiting for the wrath of KAT... Mary