Don: yes, I expect politics and all sort of things to be discussed on the BS section - by the same people who post in the music section, or at least some of them and their friends. And of course, people drop into message boards to 'stir the pot' all the time, I'm well aware. However, to randomly show up on what is obviously a music forum, when there are scads of bigger forums dedicated to political discussion and start spouting cut and paste political views suggests the kind of dedication that comes with being paid to do so.

It is a fact that there are people paid to post all sorts of things: praise of various products, for example, and yes, people are paid to elicit political responses in order to generate statistical and other kinds of information. Thus my question to Mr./Ms. Dickey as to whether they had an interest in music, because I am wondering, and would like to know, whether this is a person who came for the music and stayed to talk politics, or a person who's paid to be here.