Like most people I'm always making good resolutions not to rise to bait, and like most people I fail. (And I know that from time to time I've said things that some people have taken as trolling - a term which I think only applies really when people say things that they don't really mean that they know will get up people's noses.)

Anyway now I've made a good resolution I think I'll be able to keep. If I open up a non-music thread and it's been started by a GUEST, unadoirned GUEST or GUEST,someone (unless it's someone whose name I recognise and whom I respect), I'm going to close the thread down without reading it. I'll probably miss some good threads, since good discussion can develop out off the most unpromising beginnings, but there'll be another one alopng in a minute as they say of buses. (Not always true of buses, but it is of threads.)