In consideration of Jon's point, could we not all try a little harder to use the BS: prefix for non-music threads?

I had a "right" to post prayer threads, but even tho I hardly ever did, I spoke out for moving prayer matters off Mudcat, and I backed it with action on a number of fronts to do so. I did this because whether I intended it or not, I was perceived as a leader or instigator in that matter-- so I acted for the good of the community as a whole when I understood the history and the issues as perceived by the people of the community I had come to love.

I had a "right" to post whatever I wanted to about my faith experiences, as they pertained to subjects others had brought up, but it made so many people nuts, I generally stopped. Others kept talking about this topic-- but that wasn't me starting the threads. In fact, I have suggested, in them, that out of respect for people who cannot tolerate these threads, we avoid them.

So we have a "right" to create as much non-music stuff as we like and call the threads whatever we wish. Some of you who do this, and who forget or refuse to use the prefix provided, are the same people who got so upset with what I was doing, or what you feared I was doing to be more accurate, or what just bugged you for whatever reason.

Can we not, for the sake of others' feelings, simply LABEL non-music threads with the tools provided, whether we agree with the feelings or like the tools, simply because it is apparently important to a large number of fellow community members, and because it is asked? Can we not do this in love out of free choice, and stop looking at rights and thinking someone wants to control our rights?

~Susan