I am sorry but all this talk of battles over turf is the paranoid perception of a few blinkered souls.

As Art pointed out, the forum continues. It is oblivious to one person's idea of 'balance' being forced upon those who have the responsibility for any balance, the posters.

Any attempt to shape or 'control' the natural balance of the various contributions, justified by references to trouble-makers, will fail anyway as the vast majority of the posters are clearly just getting on with posting.

As I would be doing if this non musical 'navel-gazing' thread had not been started. Can these be kept off the main forum and be confined to the help forum where those that find this stuff interesting can talk about it endlessly, and everyone else can plod on with the business of the forum, the contributions?

There still has been no exact problem identified, just vague references to balance or mess and the same tired old bashing of our guests and even more threats.

I suspect many others like me, like the bloody forum as it is and see no need for censorship, except the limits we place on ourselves.

How about a test to see if there really is a problem?

For the next two months or so, no tweaks, no mild consolidations etc, and then let us see if the contributors generally notice any difference or there is any resulting inbalance?

How about giving this a try first?