"Trust your companions, but cut the cards anyway." I've always enjoyed and valued your postings in the short time I've participated in Mudcat, and I'm saddened by your sadness. No one here will tell you how much - or little - to post, of course, and if you choose to gradually stop posting, you can do that. I'd hate to see you go because of someone else's choice, however, be they troll or flamer. Like the tide, extraneous postings, etc. will wax and wane. I started a pretty good one a couple of weeks ago, although I didn't think it would go on as long as it did, or in the direction it did. This happens in conversations anywhere. I guess the way to change the proportion of musical threads to all the other ones is to post more musical threads; I think this would be grand. I hope you feel better soon, Mary