Our terms are a bit confusing. The "BS Filter" is something you select on the Mudcat registration page, and it gives you a cookie setting that filters out all the BS threads from your view of the Forum Menu. There are three settings with the option:

1. Default setting - display all threads, Music threads on the top, BS on the bottom
2. Display music threads only, and filter out all BS threads all the time
3. Display Music and BS threads mixed together, shown in descending order with the thread most recently posted to on top

Personally, I have no use for options 2 and 3, and I'm pleased as punch with the default setting; but some people do like 2 and 3 - but apparently they stopped working during the last week.
To set these options, you have to ask me, since I'm the one who does the data entry on the membership roster. But it's not working right now, so I'll have to ask Max to fix it.

The Filter (our fastest and most reliable search engine) is at the top of the Forum Menu list of threads, and it works very well for finding things by thread name.

-Joe-