I don't want to get involved in a long argument on this but McGrath, I don't think that paints a true picture. My observations were that the proportion of BS threads has been a variable. I haven't been back to check but from memory, I've counted music as high as 75% and as low as 55% of total threads but I think the low was after 9/11, exceptional circumtances.

Another observation of mine was that at times we had an abundance of one type of thread, I'll pick on healing threads, then a row over too many then a drop. In a sense I think I would suggest that the rows while not desirable did have the effect of a "population control" on BS:

The biggest reason for people's awarness of BS was the number of posts and popularity of certain BS threads rather than the percentage of BS threads. I've just done a count and the figures may surprise you, they did me. We can plainly see that there are rather more music threads than BS threads but my count of posts using the current 1 day listing yeilds:

Music: 1730
BS: 2145

Jon