The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37346   Message #522102
Posted By: mousethief
06-Aug-01 - 04:53 PM
Thread Name: Posting as merely 'GUEST'
Subject: RE: Posting as merely 'GUEST'
Chaos and the unknown is where music comes from.

Your taste in music obviously differs greatly from mine. Which makes me wonder why you're on a Folk Music site.

If you can't understand this simple argument, then perhaps a course in logic or critical thinking is worth an investment?:

1. Some anonymous guests have provoked huge flamewars, hiding behind anonymity 2. Therefore people here have a suspicion of anonymity 3. Yet some people, again posting anonymously, loudly bewail being discriminated against because they choose to post anonymously and are abusive (e.g. "some people don't want to see it" and "attacks/slurs by the ignorant" and "whining around that anon posting disturbs your little mudcat world") 4. And then they wonder why we dislike them 5. And demand we accept their right to post anonymously, when they have shown, by their own posts, that they will use that "cover" to be abusive and to troll 6. And yet they are infuriated when anonymous posting and trolling are equated

What are we to do, O thou Guest Who Wishes To Remain Anonymous? If you could have this discussion with us without being such a jerk, it certainly would lend credence to your argument. But because you have made yourself so nasty, you merely reinforce ours.

alex