Gallus Moll - Sadly, what you describe, is as much - if not more - responsible
for the decline of mudcat community
than the destructive behaviour of a few persistent 'trolls'..
who got all the blame...

It's when the good people chicken out and bugger off to find sanctuary in secretive places elsewhere,
that sites like this are left as playgrounds for the disruptive arseholes...

Stay here and fight back is my prefered way of resistance..