I saw the original post, and didn't take it amiss. When I first came across the Mudcat (some 5 years ago) it was a lot smaller, and the default assumption was that everybody was American unless they said otherwise.

That has changed (and there are some newcomers who don't like it, apparently believing that the UK has unfairly ousted the USA as the major force here). Now that we have proper broadband in the UK (I started out on a series of crappy, overpriced dial-up connections that failed every few minutes) the demographic has changed to reflect a bit more accurately the interest-level in the respective countries.

The fact that many of the UK members seem to know each other mainly just reflects the fact that we live in a physically small country. You can't avoid running into each other eventually, however much you might try! Yorkshire has a particularly noticeable presence, but it's the largest county (the Texas of the UK, if you like: no oil, but plenty of wide open spaces and livestock) and fiercely independent, so that isn't too surprising either.

We aren't staging a takeover bid. It's just that we were under-represented in the past because we didn't have decent internet access. Now we do. That does mean that the BS threads are full of British in-jokes; but they used to be full of American in-jokes that we didn't really understand. It works both ways. I like to think that we're net contributors to the proper music threads.

The balance will settle in time. Don't worry overmuch.