I didn't know we had a membership number as well as being members. I wonder what mine is. I wonder who's got 666...

It's been said before, but it's still true - making things more formal wouldn't stop anythi g that we'd sooner be without, and it woulsd probably stop some things we don't want to be without. So it sholdn't happen, and it won't happen.

Rule of thumb is, if someone doesn't wish to join, that normally means they don't want a reply, so don't reply to anything they say. They're writing graffiti. Sometimes you might read some graffiti, and it's interesting or whatever. Fine. But yoiu don't go treating it as something to reply to or quarrel with. Freedom to be anonynous is freedom to be invisible. If you're invisible you don't get seen.

And if we stick to that (and as The Shambles points out, it can be tempting to rise to the bait), most of these troubles will just melt away.