""it's like a club and one expects to pay for club membership"

But it's not a club... it's a free web forum.... "

It IS a club, a bloody big heavy one used to bash people over the head with, it seems...


"until we open a thread we have no idea who has started that thread, unlike most other web forums that display "Started By" -
If we had such a display one could very easily elect to simply not open a thread started by someone who is, as labelled above, a trigger...."

The name of the poster who STARTED the thread is mostly irrelevant, once the resident loonies hijack the thread!

In the drop down box at the top of the threads page, you got 2 choices:

"Messages by date" & "Messages since last visit". Both contain the name of the poster of EACH message.