Apart from a few oddballs like me, pretty well everyone here is anonymous, in the sense that they don't post with their actual face to face names, and most of the time they don't have profiles or photos on the Mudcat. And there is no problem or complaint by anyone about that, and there never has been and there never should be.

The stuff about GUESTs isn't about anonymity as such, it's about people who are unwilling to join in a conversation, but just want to throw in their contributions like stink-bombs. If a stranger joins in a conversation that's one thing. But if they shouted out interruptions from behind a curtain it'd be something different. The medium is the message, and the medium here feels like it's meant to be insulting. And if it's not meant to be insulting, noone has ever explained why it's done.