GY
I need to reply to three people. I cant reply for fifteen hours.
When people post me questions I like to have the manneres to reply asap
Have you had anymore thoughts on Yabbys request for more posts to repond ?

I have been following this discussion since the beginning and have really enjoyed it.

As someone who regularly has to edit posts back to 350 words, I find the enforced discipline of both the word limit and the posting limit very useful. They regularly force me to reflect and re-edit, and these processes invariably make my text better.

So take this as a ringing endorsement of the posting limits as they stand now. They really help.

What’s prompted me finally to post at this late stage was something I picked up on Larvatus Prodeo (http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/11/03/saturday-salon-123/#comment-416073)

The Open Forum is conducting a survey on attitudes to an online forum for the purpose of contributing to government policy development: http://www.openforum.com.au/Survey

The questions there prompted me to think about the things that are missing here, and how the OLO experience might be improved. For example, expanding the range of RSS feeds available would be good: e.g. feeds for favourite authors, users and topics. Being able to block posts from particular users would also be nice – there are several people around here whose words simply don’t need to appear on my screen.

The possibility to recommend posts would also be nice – the ABC Online discussions have an “Agree” button, which I think is good. So far I haven’t seen evidence of people gaming this feature, but I think it would need to be linked to the user’s login – you could only click “Agree” once.

I sometimes search the forum postings – this would be much easier if there was also a Google search box for forum.onlineopinion.com.au.

Still, I think that OLO works really well. I find it a great place to experience the views of others, and to modulate my own opinions. Thanks.

JWP2040
Thanks for your interesting comments. I think it all comes back to what the poster is trying to acheive. For example we have just opended a thread regarding the Governments stand on Live Animal Exports.
I had five different questions from many different angles to try to respond to.
I responded only to one and had to wait fiteen hours to repond to others.
In our case for example we have to cover many different codes and many ears.
One we cover the ALP and two the RSPCA Stand. Three is a wider Animal Welfare Policy.
Then we have to respond to questions from the meat industry and some farmers.
That makes it very difficult and often we offend people without any intention of doing so.
So is because we can not answer their questions and give them the time the deserve.
GY said he was thinking of allowing more posts to hosts of threads. That would be very helpful.