Thanks Mr Happy. I posted the new thread last night after a particularly trying time on this one - and reading others. When I looked five minutes later it was gone. I tried again in another five and still not there. I assumed it was glitch in the software or more likely I'd been bumped.

Towards the end of the thread you linked this was interesting:
"Aha, you can tell a troll a mile off, he starts a thread and doesn't come back into the discussion.

He has been invited to name the thread where he was attacked and hasn't done so. Most of us here don't like newcomers being attacked for no reason and will be prepared to defend said newcomer to the hilt. But I suspect that that is not the case here.

I'm guessing that if things quieten down on this thread he'll be back like a shot with his wooden spoon."

I don't know where to begin. Someone linked to a thread that wasn't my first but a response to a particularly unpleasant attack on someone else. My first was R. Bridge telling me in the third person 'this one isn't worth it' and mentioning 1954, something I'd been vaguely aware of on the back of my old Topic albums. I had no idea it informed people's judgements and the reason I keep coming back to those threads is to find out where the steam came from.

I do think it's a miserable, aggressive place much of the time and could be far more pleasant. I'm pleased some agree.