Ebbie, another idea that came to me was the number of members being cited in another thread being around 11,000. It made me wonder how many troll/flamers had registered as members, just to get around the membership prejudices against the blank "From" line, do their damage, and leave once they got bored.

It only takes a few minutes reading this forum for a troll to figure out how to do this, and it gets done in online forums all the time. I think the Mudcat members are too cyber-insular (ie they are too attached to their Mudcat cyber-homeland, and don't get out to other discussion forums on the web) to see who the real trolls are in their midst. Some of the worst trolls and flamers here, after all, are long-time members using the same pseudonyms and/or their real names. They are, in fact, quite proud of the fact that they get away with belittling, harrassing, humiliating, and threatening guest and other member posters with impunity.