My comment expressing scepticism about the motives of the person who started the thread was a side issue, even though it came first in my post. I felt this was probably an attempt to manipulate members for the sake of stirring, rather than a genuinely helpful thread. "Face value"? - but with a nameless GUEST poisting there is no "face" involved.

Side issue or not - posting to pass judgement on the worth or otherwise of a unknown poster is never really helpful as it just encourages others to do this or feel that just posting to do this is acceptable. This in turn encourages exchanges that, very easily can turn into the trading of insults.

As for namelesss guests having no face value - again this is another judgement. Face value simply means discussing (or ignoring) what view is being expressed. This has always been considered to be more important on our forum, that speculating who is, or who may be saying it and what their motives may possibly be.