"But attaching bogus inflammatory names to people in a pathetic attempt to give more authority to the post simply leads sooner or later to thread closure. I would regard it as a deliberate troll. That is no way to have a discussion. Or perhaps that is the intention.
We all know the sort of threads and we all know the major contributors."

Would that include inflammatory names like 'Jom' and 'Jimmie', clearly jibes aimed at an individual because of his Irish heritage and domicile?

As I said in another thread recently, people in glasshouses...