An anonymous post is fine if it offers a relevant and measured critique, and if the person it is aimed at then cannot engage in sensible debate with such a poster then it is they who have the problem and not the anon.

Everyone needs to be critical of themselves to improve, and it sometimes needs to be an honest appraisal from another to highlight this and to enable us to make changes for the better.

The problem is that a lot of anon posts are simply made to wind people up in a malicious way, with the poster hidden behind a computer screen never to be revealed. That is when the cowardice comes in and the only real way to deal with it, if anon posters are still to be allowed, is to nip them in the bud and have a zero tolerance policy in such accounts.

I also wouldn`t say there is a clique ruling Ax, as I am sure there are plenty of threads with plenty of different posters on.

The main reason for the loss of geographic particpation on Ax, imo, is simply due to the rise in popularity of MT in Britain which meant a lot more British people were joining and contributing. Our sense of humour, however, tends to be fairly unique, and I think this rubbed a lot of others up the wrong way, unintentionally.

So yes, maybe there is now a UK clique, but I`m sure you mean it is on a far more localised scale than that i.e. Leeds and associated people (let`s not beat around the bush), which i would have to disagree with.

Ooops, my names on my profile, hope I don`t get a visit one night :)