Off topic? Every single thread goes off topic because of these people - that's the whole point! My account is new because my old one(s) were so old I couldn't remember what they were, but I've visited on and off for years. I'm aware of the policy and the functionality, but the policy eats itself. There is a lot of great content posted by anonymous users, and if we adjust our individual settings to blanket ignore all anonymous posters, we lose all of that. So many of those same people would register if they had no other option, and would keep contributing their good input. But they don't have to, so they don't. And so your permatrolls take advantage of that.
Anyone who has anything anonymous to say about Morrissey for any reason can create an anonymous sockpuppet or throwaway easily enough as even your policy explains, so the value of anonymity is not lost by requiring them to register. It just gives the rest of us the ability to opt out of the worst and dominating feature of the site. I make use of the ignore function already and it makes such a difference. It just can't touch the coward(s) who specifically avoid registering to specifically make sure no one can ignore them.
But unwavering anonymous policy aside, how in the world do you otherwise allow this constant river of repellent assault? How does it add anything to your site? How does it do anything but detract from its value? New album? Cheese crankfraud, rote loopy character assassination. Public statement? Meat crankfraud, rote loopy character assassination. Post on TTY? Songwriting crankfraud, rote loopy character assassination. Over and over and over. If anyone is trying to have a conversation about anything, it will definitely get hijacked and placed on repeat. Doesn't matter what the topic is - every single front page thread goes off topic when these people apply their usual coating of feces to it and you let that go, so going off topic can't be too big of a concern. I'm willing to bet these people don't even actually care about Morrissey anymore and have just settled in to enjoy genric trollsport as a hobby in familiar surroundings.
I see that appeals to kill anonymous posting are DOA so I won't bother again, but I don't see how you otherwise let these people continue to go so far beyond the pale and drive users away from your site with unmistakeable trollery. Plenty of us are critical about this or that specific Morrissey thing, and that kind of critique and debate is worthwhile even if any one of us doesn't agree with it, but when generic opportunistic trollish abuse is someone's entire m.o., surely that's something different. Surely that's an abuse of the site. Surely there's a point past which it can't be mistaken for freethinking open discussion and differences of opinion. Broken record paint-fume cheese crankfraud pests all day every day? Baiting and spraying other users with this crap every day when they're trying to have normal Moz discussions? You're here more than anyone except them - how can you stand it?
This one person or few people have a huge negative effect and are the main reason to come here less and less, as so many have mentioned. I get it that you're fine to let everyone make their own choices in that regard, but why leave a toxic situation like this in place on a site you care enough about to maintain? Is any given principle so valuable that it's worth letting these people have such a disproportionate negative effect that users of goodwill leave and they stay and become the identity of the site?
Nobody is going to read something like this in the feedback forum because they're here instead where the daily asinine hijacking occurs, wearing everybody out. And you've made clear it's a dead issue for you, so I won't bother to start a feedback thread on this. And I won't bring it up again here since I actually care about the quality of content on the site and in its proper function. But I wanted you to know that I have appreciated this site over the years, I'm glad its here, I have appreciated your work, I'm dumbfounded and so impressed that you kept it going even in the face of Morrissey publicly targeting you personally, and I want good things for the site - better things than this unnecessarily noxious atmosphere that drags it down.