Steve we very recently had a fairly serious talk on this on another thread.
I know your long standing absolutist stance;
you know the more relaxed and flexible view & reasoning I adhere to.

"posting as guest just seems a no big deal default position unless I write something intentionally consistent with my long 'established mudcat ID / persona'.
Otherwise, I don't care if posterity credits me for random thoughts and statements here at mudcat - no matter how incisive or ridiculous.
We all have our odd quirks and idiosyncrasy. I'm not particularly driven by ego. I can't be bothered with all that tiresome nonsense."

I occasionally deliberately choose to remain anonymous when the point is more important and pertinent to a discussion
than the ID of the person making it..
To avoid the ad hominem rancour and stalking from thread to thread which plagues mudcat.

I suggested a compromise solution which might not be beyond the tech capabilities of Mudcat Admin.

"Steve, if this was my site and I had the technology, I'd implement a system whereby any 'From: box' left blank would be allocated a randomly generated name based on IP;
and that name would appear consistently whenever that IP posted anonymously...
Many of the random names might be very unflattering depending on my whims when programming the system.
That'd be a fair compromise ??? But it aint my site."

We are both annoyed that a few extreme reactionary arseholes screw it up for all other 'GUESTS'.

But I do feel your 'need' to make background checks on Guest posters that piss you off
just a bit uptight and OCD.

That's mudcat mods job, to monitor [and get their knickers in a twist] over who posts what ???