Guess what Don Firth and Kim C...

There are malicious trolls crawling and prowling all over the Internet--yes, they can even be found in Mudcat!

And they are not the only people who post in Mudcat as guests!

So what? If you don't like trolls, don't participate in the forums. They will never go away, and you will never have the control over the discussion forums you think you should have in this regard.

So why not do your blood pressure and emotional health a favor, and try a new GUEST paradigm?

Instead of painting all guests as trolls/trolls as guests with the same broad brush?

There is plenty of evidence to the contrary, despite your insistence that we guests are trolls.

We aren't.

We aren't acting like jerks.

You are, by suggesting that GUEST is synonymous with TROLL.

Not one guest posting in this thread has been what some people suggest guest postings "often are like"--not one.

It would be a much more productive use of everyone's time if some here would really work on their personal unease with and animosity towards strangers and social interactions they can't control on Mudcat, rather than bitching about and flaming guests who are behaving well, and contributing to the forum discussions about music.

To project your past bad experiences on people who have never encountered you before is just way off. Way off. And that is what too many Mudcat members are doing.

Your past history is your past history. It isn't appropriate to drag your personal baggage into present conversations, and project negatively onto others what was done to you in the past.

That is about as text book dysfunctional as it gets.