Nice trolling yourself there InOBU, but I'm not taking your bait.

Like I said, the troll here is the originator of the thread. But because the person put a name in the "From" line, they cleverly tip-toed around the Mudcat default prejudice against "anonymous" guests trolling the members by starting threads and not filling in the "From" line. This sort of trolling has been going on for quite awhile now (ie the troll posts as guest, but puts something in the "From" line). I'm even going to make a guess that the same person started this thread who has been refreshing the Celtic Music/Bulmer thread for the past week or so. Someone who is spoiling for a flamewar.

The originator of this thread even told you what they were doing--they started out their post with:

"I know that some of you might consider this an 'anti American' flame, especially because I'm posting as a Guest. It isn't, and I only post as a guest because the sysop here has disabled cookies."

So why is it that all the Mudcat members who are so good at sussing out trolls, didn't see that one coming from an American mile away?

Which proves my point about how blinkered the belief is among the membership that only posters who leave the "From" line blank are trolls in this forum.

Get a clue, Larry. Wise up and recognize the real enemy when they are in your midst. This reactionary stance of members, wherein they get a warm and fuzzy safe feeling when they see the "From" line filled in, and a hostile and contentious feeling when it is left empty, has blinded the users of this forum for far too long. Take each post at face value, and you really don't have a problem. Except when you take the posts of your fellow members who are jerks at face value, of course. Then you can't stay in your cozy, insular "member vs guest/us vs them" mentalite.