There are ways to handle the non-music stuff that don't overload the thread count.

Copy/pastes of news articles deleted. I don't have a problem with people quoting bits of stories to support their views, but no copying whole articles.

That would get shot down in a hurry. The rule here is that you should do a one-screen story paste (according to the size of Joe's story). My pet peeve is the new thread for each story. There are a number of us who regularly pull up the thread started for sharing interesting newspaper articles between newspaper readers, called "News of Note ('was I read it. . .')." It if is on the 24-hour screen, that is a clue that there is some interesting new story to go in and take a look at. Remarkable how well that works. The original thread would still be going except it was being hijacked daily by a spamming troll. The new title seems to have come in under the spam radar (so far).

So if you enjoy these silly photos in each new thread with a solitary silly photo, wouldn't it be so much easier for you to GO TO THE SAME THREAD all of the time to see the silly photos? Drop to the bottom of the thread and look at the newest offering. Trace it and just go there, then you don't have to scan the entire BS page for the new name of the new silly photo. This isn't rocket science.

Some of us lump information together, some of us sort it out. It's the sort who sort who need to learn to lump. In my opinion.

SRS