Being still pretty new here, I didn't experience the Good (?) Old Days of Mudcat and I don't really know you guys *except* via this here glowing collection of pixels, electrons, or whatever-they-are in front of me face. NEVER THE LESS, I wanna say the following. (1) You folks are great. (Well--- yer Pixels are, anyway.:) (2) The serious music threads are awesome. Literally. I'm in awe. Often. (3) The funny threads, and posts, musical or not, are frequently hilarious. (4) The negative BS threads don't bother me, usually. One can stay away from what the wise WYSIWYG unerringly names the "stinky poop". And as the wise-and-utterly-unstinky Mr. 'Spaw said, "...for the love of god, why must we try to continually change unchangeable minds?" (He uses the latter noun generously, to be sure.) (Whoa! Pook takes a Poke, there.) (5) A musicloving non-musician, I gravitate toward---occasionally even start---what you might call "BS Lite" threads. Perhaps they somewhat counterbalance the Bad Vibes stuff.