I frequently post as a guest. Usually with this name, adding "(without a cookie)", or something similar.

I do this because the computer security regime at my work, regularly zaps cookies.

I have nothing to hide. I frequently reinstate my cookie, and post under my own Mudcat identity for a while, until the inevitable happens again.

I am bound to say that the amount of sheer vitriol that is poured out against those who choose (or have to) post as guests is bewildering. Lets's take a moment though to consider that almost no-one - very very few people - post under anything like their own real name anyway. There are exceptions - Rick Fielding - for example.

Many of us use soubriquets/nicknames that we thought were amusing at the time, or might be descriptive in some way. SO in some ways many of us are using our Mudcat names to hide behind, or at least to avid revealing more than we want to. That is all completely understandable and sensible.

However, I really dislike and resent the strong opinion that appears to prevail in some quarters that posting as a Guest is a perversion of some kind, and that someone posting as a Guest is "up to no good".

I'm aware of the fact that many people may see this post as provocative, and I do not intend it as such. Let's be clear, anyone who will delete a cookie just so they can post as a Guest and flame another 'Catter is just as capable of creating multiple Mudcat names, and switching between them so they can flame when they feel like it.

I'm sort of done. I know that my post won't change anything, but I've wanted to say some of this for a while.

I'm done moaning. I'll shut up now.

Cheers

SD