McGrath, I was talking about the cases where guest posters using a handle have come into the forum, only to be attacked by members who were obsessed with exposing guests supposedly REAL identity, or accusing guests posting with a handle they weren't familiar with of being trolls.

Members in this thread mentioned two specific guest posters by name that this was done to, and it is their claims to which I referred.

The MC "old timer member" behavior of "outing" guests for using pseudonyms and handles, whether consistently or inconsistently, is pretty bizarre in a forum where so many members and guests use them in those very same ways.   

Old timers seem to keep conveniently forgetting, most of the current forum users weren't here "back in the day" when some members felt threatened by a troll usurping their user names a couple of times. The paranoia level over that one circumstance (which was swiftly dealt with at the time) is what continues to drive this obnoxious behavior, and it makes the whole forum look bad to newcomers. Tht paranoid and cynical old timer member behavior is also getting very old, and alienating more and more forum users all the time.