Mudcat is to folk these days, what draught is to beer.

Good draught beer is the best beer.

If Jerry's gone that's a real shame. It's only a small handful of people who screw up this place, but that's all it takes. But if only the rest of us could learn not to get sucked into the name calling and that it'd die away.

Any time anybody insults you or anyone else here (I don't mean the play insults that are part of friendship, the real ones are unmistakable, and I don't mean expressions of disagreement, however firm, ), I suggest the thing to do is cut them out completely from your attention - just don't look at their posts in future, don't reply to them, don't acknowledge their existence. Of course they can and do dodge that, by signing in with their cookies removed, but if it could become a custom of the Cat to boycott those kinds of posts, maybe they'd die off through natural selection.

Calling for heavier policing from on high is, I think, a mistake. Indeed, if it came to that, we'd in many ways have lost the Mudcat.