Kendall, an example would be a paid membership and to require a user name and password to enter this site. Using a system like that coupled with strict moderation would probably cut out all the nastiness but IMO, it would also be the death of the Mudcat that most of us love.

Any public forum is going to have problems from time to time but Mudcat is IMO as good as you can possibly get for an open forum. As others have suggested, let's just enjoy it for its good points of which there are many.

Jon