Perhaps it is a good idea to been seen to just to encourage either the posting of something about the thread's subject or to be seen to be ignoring the thread altogether? As this is possibly the best judgement of all.

We can all learn something from these contributions. I have found out many things about Eddie Cochran, Helen Shapiro, Freddie King and Meatloaf from these threads - other posters (who did not know) have found out from these threads who they are.

We learn nothing from posts that only express judgements on the thread's subjects or posts that make only uninformed speculations about the thread originator's possible motivations.

Posters have found out things in this thread about Catspaw's paranoia and his need to publicly speculate about and to call his fellow poster's names - but many knew that anyway.

I have found out very little about Chubby Checker and his affect on posters' lives - as yet.