The reason we do not ban Guests, I think, is that we want to encourage folks to come in and feel welcome to converse without (as Twe3ed calls it) a secret handshake thing. It is a homey, friendly courteous attitude on the part of Max and Joe.

Now, sometimes folks come in who aren't used to nice places and friendly people and have a lot of bitterness and have to act it out by posting crapulous invective on one button or another.

Should we let the unbridled aberration of a few dictate our policy? Be ruled, again, by the lowest common denominator?

Why not --instead-- decide we want to have a certain standard of affection for friends we haven't yet met, and cleave to that, and handle what we have to handle on a case by case basis?

I think Guests (as a class) should be welcome. Individuals (registered or otherwise) who generate misery should be dealt with and (if nothing else works) ousted.


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