Graham

Fair comment.

I think I am correct in stating that there are more male than female contributors to OLO.

Therefore, I look forward to Wendy and her supporters making significant contributions on OLO - as you would've noted I have left a couple of links for them to consider. All of which means that I have assisted in more readers viewing your relevant and tasteful advertising.

Cheers

Oh thank you so much Graham.

This is one of the failings of OLO I have pointed out many times. The exclusive 'established' users club.

BTW: It's nice to see Severin calling for the new female posters to support her 'when the going gets tough' with male posters, and simultaneously cheering on CJ insulting them

I don't think CJ Morgan should be allowed to continue to insult anyone.

Good work Graham. I'd suggest that a perusal of recent threads will also show the same users attempting to stifle threads by calling for others to refuse to participate. As you say, that does not further the aims of OLO.

Back to the topic; I'm in favour of better regulation of outdoor advertising, but the particular example doesn't really worry me too much. The infamous longer sex boards are more the sort of thing that I'm concerned with. Firstly, they prompt age-inappropriate questioning by children. Secondly, they promote an unreasonable and unrealistic view of sexual performance and thirdly, they're basically dishonest.

Beside that sort of thing a few scantily-clad women extolling the virtues of a titty-bar seems pretty tame to me.

While I'm not surprised that Graham's interested in increasing traffic to OLO, I think that puff pieces like this from endorsed candidates for the forthcoming Federal election should clearly identify themselves as such. As for Francis's 'fan club' of followers, I haven't suggested that they are sockpuppets.

The 'sockpuppet trolls' to whom I've referred are "vanna" and "Proxy", both of whom have had several previous user identities at OLO, that they change regularly. However, since they use them consecutively it's probably not strictly against the rules, although dishonest.

I note that nobody has responded to my previous point that the 'Two Naughty Bars' billboard that apparently upsets Ms Francis and her fans so much is actually attached to the fence of a religious private school. Why don't they (or even better, parents of the boys who attend it) just approach the school with their concerns, rather than engaging in this thinly disguised political grandstanding?

I spoke with Brisbane Boys Grammar School very early on in this campaign and their parents and teachers are disgusted with the billboard advertising which is just outside their school. They have the same rights as any to complain about billboard advertising and the self-regulated ASB will let us all know what they decide. However the top 3 complaints from last year were dismissed. This is not the worst example of billboard advertising by far, but there are thousands of us who are sick of being bombarded with sexually explicit images when we just want to enjoy being outdoors and we want the right to protect our young kids innocence for as long as possible.