One guest above posted "The rub is, those who feel that Mudat is a community believe they ought to be able to dictate the behavior of those to whom this is an internet discussion forum like many others. " Nonsense - I feel very strongly that it IS a community, and I feel no urge to " dictate" - I just wish people would remember their manners. Miss Manners has several publications about how guests should act, and how host(esse)s should act; I recommend them all. The thing here is nobody is the host, unless you want to count the person who starts the thread as hosting THAT thread. There is no host for the entire Mudcat community.

If you don't like a thread, or don't like why it was posted, why say so? Why not just click Back and go on to another post? That is dictating, and I (personally) find it's the guests who are more likely to try to dictate... it seems that the Why was this thread started, or Why should we care comments come more often from Guests, but of course that is an empirical question. Perhaps if we had some data on that?