My God that "liberal" is a long-winded bugger, even by my standards!

The point about coming in as GUEST without even a pseudonym is that it really screws up the possibility of a coherent discussion, because one GUEST may be the same as the next GUEST, or a completely different person.

That makes it very clumsy replying - you'd have to say GUEST + date + time of the post in question; and you couldn't point out discrepencies between what they said in one post and another, because you can't be sure its the same person. (Well you can't anyway with a GUEST, because anyone can use the same pseudonym - but in practice that rarely happens, and if it does it'll get drawn to our attention pretty sharpish.) It turns posting into a form of graffiti, and who wants to argue with a wall?

"generally LSCs differ only in degree" So do most things, when you get down to it. Democrats and Republicans are a prime example - most of them would fit neatly inside the British Conservative Party, at least so far as policies are concerned.

The fact that they appear to loathe each other just confirms that. You have to be fairly close to someone to really loathe them. Most violence happens within families.