Basically I'm for it - but the kind of thing I'd worry about would be that threads like the musicians from Iraq thread might get swallowed us in a Iraq miscellany.

A single issue can often have radically different aspects which can justify separate threads. I think we ought to make much more use of putting in links to other threads which seem relevant to us, like I did just then.

I think that we are still stuck in ways of thinking that are pre-upgrade. Any thread longer than 50 or so used to be inaccessible to some people, and anything longer than 100 was a nuisance to everybody. That meant that starting a new thread rather than continuing on older one made sense. But now it really isn't necessary most times.

The other thing that's been happening, as has been pointed out, is probably an effort by one or two people who like to pose as friends of free speech to try to force the Mudcat into a more moderated and controlled pattern, so that they can pretend it was like that all along. It's how some people get their kicks.