"GUEST" wrote; "It matters not how many times members *say* they treat guests well. What matters is how guests actually feel they are treated here.

A number of guests and current members who are former guests, say they don't feel they are treated equally, or well.

Actions speak louder than too much protestations doth".

Can I just tell you that the *only* time I was made to feel the least bit uncomfortable here was when I first joined, and it was from an anonymous "GUEST" who posts much in the same style you do?

I have no way of knowing if it *was* you or not, as you have no handle, nor did they. All I can tell you is I joined and was entreated to some pretty impolite behavior, and not by any of the regulars.

I am still getting my "Cat" feet here, and have appreciated the regulars patience with me. However, if anything has tainted my experience at all (and it has not to any appreciable degree, as I will not let it), it would be the aforementioned.

So my question would be: Does it matter how I feel I have been treated? Or is your statement (as quoted above) only reserved for those without a name or membership?