Are we becoming a society of wusses? A bit of "biffing" is part of our culture. Excessive "biffing" or vulgarity is controlled adequately by Graham where the offenders are penalised with suspension from OLO.

The problem posters are those who refuse to address any questions posed; who fail to substantiate their claims; who babble on oblivious to other posters' comments and who endeavour to hog a thread.

"Dickie- Now there you go free - '"insensitive" lessons from our old Yabbs. Yabby has some advise to give on how to be insenstive.."

Too true Pale - we "emotional" posters must endure constant lectures from Yabby.

Unfortunately there are posters who are incapable of reconciling emotion with reason. These are the "masters-of-style" who would maniacally reason that Jack the Ripper was a gentle soul. These are the ones who aim at the sickest possible idea and set about proving its cogency (with face covered of course!)

Of course most of us are aware that morals are not derivable from reason alone - if at all.

However, OLO is a great learning curve for all posters though I am fearful that additional access to the "Article" threads can result in other posters losing interest.

Four posts, possibly in succession, from just one egotistical poster, has the potential to become very tedious indeed.

wizofaus

"How can "2 posts a day" be a well-struck balance? A balance between what?"

It just seems like a balanced position to me that's all. The forum appears to be working well so why mess with it. And speaking personally I've never found it restrictive. But seeing as you ask, it strikes a balance between the suggestion made earlier by Fester for one post (which I do think would be restrictive) and the call made by others for unlimited posts.

"I would venture to suggest that none of the squabbling would have taken place if it weren't for the restrictions."

I didn't read the posts all that closely but I can't see how lifting the restrictions would have ended the bickering on that thread, or on any other thread for that matter.

Ditch

"But it is a silly restriction to place on adults if it's to do with trusting us to be civil with each other."

The reason the moderators restrict the numbers of posts is probably more to prevent a small minority of posters hogging the thread and in effect shutting others out than it is to encourage civility. I just happened to agree with Fester's comment that limiting the posts might also limit the 'biffo'.

Hi all
I suppose GY tries to keep it down so he doesnt have to go through too many comments each day.

On the other hand he may feel if he gives more than two posts this time it will set way to a whole bunch of requests.

We should be grateful we have some place to air out thoughts in this country.

Then again as I said before if none of us posted there wouldnt be a forum.

Why not put this to the vote.?

All those who support Yabbys idea of more posts say "eye"
All those against the idea of more than two posts say "N0"

Blimey Graham ring the bells looks like the eyes have it.

Dickey - ah yes the curse of caring.
Is it a curse- or a gift- to care about these poor creatues ?
Speaking about eyes have you seen the new footage of of all they cattle horses sheep goats deer eyes as they go blind on the ships Dickie.?

The poor darlings thrashing their sick frightend heads around in fear until they no longer have the strenght.

Of course the ones still left alive that are not thrown into the sea or put down mincers alive are dragged kicked and bashed often another thousand miles in over 50 degree heat in CLOSED trucks or stuffed into CLOSED boots of cars making it over a hundred degrees.

If the UN want to do something they can help open abattoirs here and set up refigration to export meat to the world.

How about we vote on that Yabby.

Whatever,i'll go with the flow.The only thing that irks me is the people who open a thread and then deride any person who doesn't agree with them.I thought this site was to give our opinions and discuss subjects,not to be abused or treated as an idiot if we have an alternate view.Some of the posters remind me of school yard bullies.Some,get on the same bandwagon regardless of the topic,ie BOAZ and The animal liberation movement.I can't see where either of those are germane in this instance.What on earth have animals(unless they have a computer and can write)got to do with this topic. I must admit i'm having fun and don't mind putting the cat amongst the pigeons on occassion. g'day to you all and i'll be waiting for more interesting subjects.

Haygirl

While I agree that reference to animals may be off topic, it is relevant to the author of this thread though your reference to Boaz is not.

The author continually endorses and promotes the barbaric treatment of animals and also vociferously defends the exports of Australia's live animals on the ships of shame to a heinously cruel fate.

Sadruddin Aga Khan(Former UN High Commissioner of Refugees:-

"The suffering of sentient creatures is an intolerable blight on humankind and our moral progress. No compassionate being can witness animal suffering and not feel empathy and the desire to change a society that permits this to happen."

The author of this thread has actively dominated and hogged all animal welfare sites, promoting his Marquis de Sade philosophies on OLO where it is clear he regards all other species as cannon fodder.

Surely then, we who detest cruelty to animals are entitled to enquire on this thread as to why our resident Marquis de Sade is now criticising a well-managed and efficient forum where his posts already exceed those of most others members?

"While I agree that reference to animals may be off topic, it is relevant to the author of this thread"

You miss the point entirely Dickie. The point of this thread is
to discuss 4 posts versus 2 posts as various limits, in various
sections of OLO. Various people have mentioned it, I simply
opened it up for discussion for everyone and invited their opinions.

The fact that animal libber extremists like yourself and Pale are
trying to turn it into yet another animal liberation thread,
is fairly obvious. As if we havent had enough of those.

People who are interested in that topic are free to read the
points of reason made there and form their own opinions.

I don't think that they or I particularly care how much you hate
me. But then perhaps now you feel better having gotten it all
off your chest :)

Anyhow, it would at least be considerate of others other then
myself, if you stuck to the topic and kept animal liberation for
animal liberation threads.