Where on this thread has anyone tried to dictate what people can and can not do? As for attracting newcomers? I have never known the soul scene actively go out and try and attract new people. What do you expect people to do? Stand on street corners preaching the soul gospel? Knock on doors? What?
I think the scene is very welcoming. Yes you get good and bad in all walks of life but I go to a lot of venues and I can honestly say I have never known it be anything else, both past and present. I guess it can come across as otherwise on here at times but most of that is down to the way things come across on a message board rather than being intentional. Soul Source is not the soul scene however, Soul Source is 'virtual', the soul scene is 'actual'.