All I can say is that I've been bored, irritated, annoyed, baffled and infuriated by a number of Mudcat posters in the past, but not one of those people could be characterised as a joyless, closed-minded traddie pendant. Infuriating cranks, we get 'em. Conservative traddies, we get 'em. Infuriatingly crankish conservative traddies... not so much.

I really do think this manoeuvre is just beards and pullovers at one remove. "Folkies, you're all wrong about folkies, folkies are great - except for those other folkies of course! God, they're awful!"