There are no threads of the negative variety. There are threads in which various persons can behave negatively. I'm not all sweetness and light and would never claim to be. I don't think that Jeri would argue that she is either. I'm in a lot of threads down here that are generally light-hearted. I'm a big contributor to joke threads, recipe threads and weather threads. I'll willingly post to other threads of that ilk, the archaeology and bird ones for example. You came below the line (oddly) to declare that you come here to chat about folk and blues music. You unfairly insinuated that I don't. Actually, a snapshot today revealed to me that I'm in eight threads above the line, just in the threads that appear on the three-day page. Counting people's posts above and below the line is fraught for the reasons I've given. If you're involved in a discussion about politics, it's likely that you'll post to that thread a number of times. In music threads you may contribute just two or three times (unless you're one of those who wish to discuss Ewan MacColl, etc., until kingdom come, of course). You'd have a case if you found someone who never, or hardly ever, posted above the line. I play traditional music but I don't sing, so I'm not going to post much in threads about songs and their lyrics, etc. But I am involved in traditional music and within my limits I do know my stuff, and will post about it if I find it useful. You probably wouldn't want to know my methods for fine-tuning diatonic harmonicas, so I don't start too many music threads. I imagine that that applies to the majority of people here, bar those who have doctorates or long years of song-collecting, etc. My interests in traditional music are not particularly Mudcat-mainstream but I do read far more music threads (and learn stuff), than I post to. Be judgemental if you like, but try not to see the world in black and white. And check your facts before you post, then you won't get shouted at.