We have to have a reason to come here
I like the balance more or less.
cracks to circumvent commercial software and such has been severely frowned upon, and quite rightly.
Folk music is the core of "here" and folk can be stretched to the pursuits and rituals of people (now or then) so we can be a broad church
& I always justify the likes of light bulb jokes because it is what we do now, and on an intelectual level it gives a succinct statement of what we think of certain professions or corners of culture, they are throw-away, and nobody values them after they have been launched.
Now pardon me for the leap of faith, but did not Cecil Sharp find that his "source" did not rate or over value the kind of songs he sang in the pub and was baffled by a posh gent getting so agitated over a throw-away song.
we don't value what we are surrounded with cos it will always be there.
at this micro level history has taught us - NO!