Some people don't use their own names for the same reason we cut our names and addresses from envelopes.

What makes you think these comments are confined to Mudcat? Your thoughts, comments, likes, dislikes, other peoples' misrepresenting of what you say? All there for anyone to google. Max links it all to Twitter too.

When a couple of morons started putting my name in threads rather than Musket, two other members and I shared the name and log in to muddy the waters and show a degree of irony aimed at pompous prigs and idiots.

I suppose it's better than having no sense of shame eh?