I thought Susan was an excellent editor. All the best.

Perhaps OLO could ramp up its sales of articles to other pulications, acting in that context as an agent I suppose for various writers.

Susan

Your vision, impartiality and high level competence was the primary foundation for OLO's success.

Your courtesy and communication skills - outstanding.

Online discussion sites are in their infancy - I have no doubt that you will take your experience gained to greater and better than OLO - look how Crikey has gone from strength to strength, despite the resignation of its founder.

@Graham.

"Tough love" implies you believe you are ruling a group of truants, there is no indication of respect for your varied contributors/subscribers with such language.

While you may feel as if you are herding cats, you are in communication with many intelligent people, who are often well-informed, educated and have the right to disagree with you on a forum such as this. This forum is a wonderful format, would be a shame for OLO to lose what significance it has achieved. May you learn and not stagnate.

I wish you luck.

Thank you so much for all the lovely comments on here and the huge raft of emails I have received as well, I have been really touched and incredibly flattered! I am very sad to be leaving OLO after all this time. For me it has been a pleasure: who gets to read more than 10,000 words of fascinating stuff everyday and gets paid to do it?

I have seen many authors come to OLO with their first attempts at writing and then head off to bigger and better things – and that has been very satisfying for me.

Over the years I have read opinions on things that I wouldn’t have considered, I have seen ideas debated and discussed with passion, and I have learned a great deal in the process. I have also learned that OLO is not about its articles, it is about a community of people sharing ideas. I think it is important for all of us, even if we don’t at first blush agree with an argument (or even agree after much consideration!) that we should still respect others’ opinions. I think OLO allows that, although sometimes I do despair at the quality of the discussion on the forum – that I have to say!

I must also thank Graham for giving me a go with little more to my CV than abundant enthusiasm and determination to make a go of a new career started mid-life. He is an ideas man and is often ahead of the curve. He allowed me to work from home when it was still a very rare concept, which in turn allowed me to live more cheaply in Toowoomba and to balance single parenthood of young daughters with full time work. Thanks Graham.

I have become friends with so many authors and I will miss them. You can keep tabs on me on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/susan.prior60) if you wish and hopefully I will pop my head up again in some other editing role in the future.

In six years, quick back of envelope calcs tell me, I have dealt with more than 3,500 authors and edited more than 9,000 articles!

Thank you: it has been a privilege. Susan

Susan,

Thanks for you advice, and I wish you well for your future.

Good on you Susan,

Professional editors of your high calibre are hard to find.

Kind regards

Cheryl

Dear Graham,

Your dreams, your commitment, your sacrifices, remind me of Giovanna Berneri who, single handed, since the collapse of fascism until her death, ran a monthly publication, Volonta’.

Her business was her reader’s business and a model for any man of vision.

In the last page she printed the financial transactions of the month, including her salary, and the balance at hand.

But she did not deal in irresponsible, dreamy opinions from which the gutter-press derives its power.

Her business was ’verifiable and undeniable facts’ and the questioning of administrators of which, long ago, I talked to you.

The many who are wronged are prepared to meet the costs of questioning and the disclosures would be positively informative, and a worry to the masters of silence and misinformation.

Albert Triann