BillD, no it's NOT what nameless GUESTs do, because as you've pointed out, several members have "have posted a LOT of acrimonious stuff here which has not been touched." If things were as fair as you claim, would that be so? You and the rest of the Annoyingly Shrill Gang complain about GUEST posts regardless of content. But like you said, BillD, "why do I bother?" You only venture into BS threads so you can climb up on your self-made pedestal to harrumph and click your tongue disapprovingly. So I really don't take your opinions on the matter seriously, anyway.

Joe, reasonable arguments, but again, does this really call for such heavy-handed treatment? I don't think most people have a problem following threads with anon. GUESTs, cutting-and-pasting, etc. I can see why you might like to keep the really long articles out, as they take up more space, but is this really such an epidemic that you need to delete any threads containing them? Cut-and-pasted long articles are relatively rare, and usually only become very common on fast-moving threads during a time of crisis (9/11, war, Israeli genocide, etc.). And it's usually members who do it, anyway, so you can easily yell at them for it.

I urge you not to further erode the "rights" of Mudcatters, no matter how many "Yay Joe!" or "Hear, hear, Joe!" or "Joe shits pure gold!" comments you may get from the Mudcat old-timer minority for your efforts. There's much more to the place than them.

And to all the love-it-or-leave-it crowd: So, what, no room for dissent on "your" forum? I thought you hippy types liked that kind of thing? Fucking sell-outs.

Oh, almost forgot Nigel: You're not making any sense with that "come back to look at old threads" thing, so I'll just mark you off as "insane" and move on.

---Lepus Rex