The bad manners and rudeness referred to in earlier posts, it should be clear, are pretty much outside of this thread, although there were some earlier posts on this thread with catty bristling, hissing, and baring of retractable claws. Shortlived on this thread, though. The verbal aggression we talk about here, these are observations of posts on other threads mostly.

You can't be unaware that before April, the BS/Non-music section of the forum was adjusted so that "GUEST"s could no longer post there, the only permitted posts in BS/Non-music henceforth come from logged-in Mudcat members. The verbal aggression we lament here caused this adjustment to be made in the first place.

My original post referred directly to this change of policy.

Looking, through the Mudcat link features, at Joe F's own previous posts, there can be seen threads where this kind of unreasonable verbal outburst occurred with regularity: consider the "Winston Churchill Thieving Cheapskate" thread. I don't mean Joe F made those rude posts, I mean he posted to threads that had such posts in them.
Sigh.