Chief Chaos, Mudcat members have long had the ability to filter out guest postings. That isn't the problem here. The problem is, they don't like that as a solution to them getting pissed off at guests.

They would prefer being able to line people up on "their" side, and suck people into their petty tantrums, when an anon guest gets the better of them in a thread, and they come off looking foolish. What they really want is revenge.

If what they were interested in was participating in forums without getting their blood pressure up (which is what filters allow you to do--filter out the people you find unpleasant to deal with, which is the mature way of doing things online), they would just use the damn filters.

Obviously, they want to start something, not end it. Otherwise they wouldn't start these sorts of ridiculous threads, trying to get everybody on their band wagon.