My suggestion on how we can bring peace to this place - more frequent deletions of posts like mine and others on this thread. Drop the BS and keep it a site based on folk music.   Mudcat has become an excuse for people to state their opinions on ANYTHING. This is not the corner bar. When the site operated more as a music site, there was more joy to be found.   Rambling discourses on how the site should be run should be trashed.   I would have no problem seeing this thread closed, or my own statements deleted.   The owners of this site have the perogative to do that.   The fact that they have not shows how open they actually are.

The owners of this site had a number of choices available to them - as our forum became more popular. But its main aim was to become more popular and encourage the public's contributions. They could have chosen a strict - keep on topic - take it or leave approach but that was not the choice made. The choice made was a brave one and it was not to (try to) limit discussion to music.

If you don't like a site with rambling discourses on how the site should be run - then find another or take this up with Max. That is way our forum has always been encouraged to work - at least by Max.

The problem is that rather than being encouraged to tolerate different views poster are now encouraged to publicly pass their personal judgements upon the worth of fellow posters and feel that all but the like-minded can now be bullied away.