As noted, this is a topic that I'd feel confident in saying has been chased 'round the tree since the site first founded.

I've been around since '98, and in those few years I've watched this site go through a pretty steady cycle - more music, followed by more social spawned by the music, followed by vitriol from a few recurrent assholes (who may or may not be the same from cycle to cycle, but does it matter? Stupidity is), then back to music.

Oddly enough, the site still goes on, and people still contribute what they can to the greater knowledge base.

It was also noted that there's only so much that can be said about any given topic. I got uptight about the 'it's already been talked about, here's the link' answers that usually shut down music request threads, but eventually realized - how many times CAN you discuss the variants on "Lark in the Morning"?

So what does all this mean to me? I'll side with the "Please use prefixes, please try to be somewhat polite, or at least human, and please keep things going".

Now... back to music. I just scored a full '65 set of Child's 'Ballads' for $10 for all five volumes!

Woohoo!

M