Earl - A little clarification. I would certainly prefer the percentage of folk music postings to increase dramatically. Most of the people I know in the 3D world feel the same.

What to me is self evident however that a completely unsupervised Forum will from time to time degenerate as indeed Mudcat has done in the relatively short time that I have been here.

It does not necessarily follow that it will stay this way. Indeed I greatly hope that it does not.In the absence of control the goodwill of a majority of posters is required to focus on consideration of folk music matters. Without this focus all of us who care about folk music may as well concentrate on making music and learning in our smaller but(at the present time)much more rewarding pools.

My next post will be about music.Most of us can do little more than this to try to re-focus discussion.