Actually Wolfgang, I am not familiar with Greg F's posts in Mudcat. I also didn't look up his posting history here when I read his provocative comments in this thread, or in another thread the same day (can't remember which thread now), where he did the same thing.

I didn't need a handle to figure out that poster was using hyperbolic rhetoric to make his point in this instance. But I can appreciate your point that using a consistent handle makes it easier for others to determine each poster's communication style. However, just because the handle works as shorthand for some, doesn't mean that one can't suss out the communication tactics being employed by a specific poster, in a specific context, in a specific thread, with close reading too. I prefer to do close reading (most days) to understand what a poster means in any given post. I do acknowledge that some poster here, however, do prefer to use a poster's identity, rather than their actual words, to suss out the meaning of a specific post.

Vive la difference.