On this "community" versus "resource" and general website issue..

I would have thought that in the context of folk music in particular "Community" should mean "accessible to anyone interested", including guests, not "inward looking members-only clique". Some threads may be narrower than others in that they only apply to the folk music scene in a particular country (or even more localised than that). And guests may sometimes have good reasons for not identifying themselves, which as far as I can see Mudcat generally understands. But snide and abusive comments from anonymous "guests" who show no knowledge of, or interest in, any aspect of folk music are just gatecrashing. Which of course anyone can do on any open website, if their lives are sad enough.