"Without wishing to prolong the topic longer, I just want to say one thing. There seems to be a trend in humanity to look down on certain groups of people different from your group. These might be gypsies, or indeed Jews, Muslims or Christians. They might be immigrants or foreigners, or even a different colour from you. So you start to compile anecdotes of their bad/unsociable/ unacceptable behaviour, as they are somehow inferior to you, not conforming to your norms. This then seems to justify your treating them poorly, after all they are only gypsies....Jews....Romanians... etc.

All people should be treated equally and fairly, that's all I say."

Spot on Tradsinger - excellent post !!!

Now, in the context of mudcat, in place of the listed down trodden & unjustly despised minorites - substitute the subgroup Guests...



oh dear....

"Why does Mudcat tolerate anonymous GUEST posters to indulge in trolling, windup and baiting exercises? Please Mudcat make a stipulation backed by a software sentinel, that ensures that non-members are allowed to post once and once only to a post. That alone would go a long way to bringing a lot of this abuse of these threads to an end."

Fergus, please consider Trad's pertinent contribution.