Leper perhaps?

Or maybe 'nigger'.

And I use that loaded word with caution. But it does seem to fit, since 'guests' here are treated as if they were African Americans in the Old South.

At any rate, 'guests' have been demonized here, and marginalized in a way that has resulted in them being treated like a parasitical, malignant class of foreigners, here for the sole purpose of spoiling the clubhouse atmosphere among some certain members.

Like some other guests who have spoken up recently in the guest bashing threads, who have stated in those threads that they refuse to join Mudcat as members as a matter of principle (because of the way guests are treated here), I too choose to post as a guest for the same reason.

For me, the rewards of membership simply don't outweigh what I see as liabilities of being a member of an elite club. That just ain't my style. But then, I don't belong to a local church or country club either.