today, for the first time in ten years, the amount of topics in Your Views, about general and personal things, overtook the music threads on here.

Implies to me that our "industry" is contracting and shrinking.

We would still like enthusiasm and positive thoughts on music, please.

We get literally thousands of readers and viewers to this Tip Sheet board every day - but fewer and fewer posts.

The Tip Sheet has always attracted a higher level of visitors, with all the heads of departments and companies logging on as well as music lovers. Are you all becoming so battered by fate that you don't want to share thoughts anymore?