Lizzie's pillioring is largely to do with her insistance that everyone else should view the world exactly as she does, enthuse over the same bands that she does, express their enthusiasm on precisely the same terms she does. Lizzie is pillioried because, in a frenzy of anti-intellectual self-righteousness, she makes unfounded and ignorant attacks on organisations like EFDSS and people like Walter Pardon.

I am not going to stop discussing subjects that interest me just because doing so makes someone else feel insecure. Put it another way: there are millions of breathless, squeeing fansites on the internet, for folk as much as any other music. Mudcat is one of the only places where serious discussions of folk music can and do take place. I have learned a hell of a lot from being here, which is why I keep returning, despite the lunacy. And I will keep coming, and contributing to and reading interesting discussions (I read a lot more threads than I actually participate in, inluding some of the political ones below the line), because I like to learn and discover new things.

If that makes me a bully, or an intellectual snob - guilty as charged, I guess. But if you don't like talking about these subjects or the terms in which they are couched, no one is forcing you to do so.