RobP, on the basis of that I got all excited and went and checked if we could now select "All Articles" in the article index. It is another outstanding bug. But no, when you do that it still returns "Server Error Incident number: 240-4715 The fault has been reported to staff" unconditionally. The message is either a lie, or the fault report is ignored. Or, more likely, they don't have a clue what causes it.

rStuart said

The biggest offenders seem to the animal rights people, and if anything leaving carcasses around seemed to whip them up into even a bigger frenzy.

Pale says
I think 'all requests' to take off a comment should also be posted on OLO.

Also a response= Yes I will take this off because I agree with you regarding
A, B , C or= No I wont take it down = Because=
Also I think other posters should have a say in it not just one person.

Its very easy for one person to not like a Harry or Bob Or Daisey....

As Rstuart has pointed out he does not like people in general posting about animal welfare etc.

I think it would be unfair to tag everybody with good intentions towards fellow creatures..

Most of these people who post about animal welfare are seeing unbelibable cruelty that is not allowed by law to be shown on TV because it might upset some people.

I know the RSPCA are frustrated by this.

Posting can be fun but it does upset some that others just live their lives blind deaf and dumb to the suffering of Animals.

Its so sad that people want to stop good people from informing the public as to the plight of our fellow creatures.

People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming: "As Rstuart has pointed out he does not like people in general posting about animal welfare etc."

No, I didn't say that, nor did I say anything that could be remotely construed to imply that. Its unlikely I would since I am a soft touch when it comes to animals.

If you really want to know what trigger my comments you need a a bit of background. I have found its useful trick responding to someone is to go through their comment history. It helps in understanding their point of view on a particular subject. If I can get an accurate feel for what they are thinking I can reply in a way they can understand. But no, before you get paranoid - I didn't go through PALE's comment history. I went through GrahamY's.

A fair portion of his posts are made with his moderator hat on, trying to damp down threads going off the rails. If you look over posts it becomes obvious a lot of those posts are made on animal cruelty threads. Vindictive and obnoxious things are said by both sides of course, but the supporters for animals rights win my Guernsey for the worst behaviour because of the incident described here:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2024&page=0#42075

If the animal rights people attacked the issues and not the person there would be no basis for complaint. But they all too often reduce themselves to seeking verbally eviscerate those who argue against them, denigrating both themselves and the issue they stand for in the process. That's bad enough, but in the instance I quoted they uniquely went one step further attacked the forum itself.

rstuart, before you go further down the track of those old issues you might want to look at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1502#28989

R0bert

Some advanced search facilities would be a great addition to the site.

I was just looking at the interchange between Steel and Veronika regarding the use of the word misogynist http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=7645#121253 (and a couple of posts further down) and wishing I could serch for all uses of the word (and narrow the search down to exclude instances where HRS used it).

I'd like to be able to relocate the post where Boazy compared the deception in his posts to the deception in fighting without trolling back through all his posts in the last few months of that alias.

R0bert

rstuart
I apogise for jumping to conclusions. Glad to hear your a soft touch for animals and yes I suppose I get a little over defensive.

The truth is that people who do get involved in working to help animals get reports that haunt them.

Because these reports are not allowed to be shown on Tv and mostly go unreported people do become bitter and angry .

That doesnt help when we are 'supposed' to be reaching out to the public and informiing them of what is really going on.

I think your comments hold a lot of water and Roberts posted some sensible ideas too.
What I would like to see is the red buttom comments going up on OLO
Also as I said earlier perhaps ask the other posters in that thread if they think its a fair cop to take off those particlar comments as well.
Posters always have a better knowledge of the thread they are interested in.
Does anybody recall when GY asked if we would like to be able to post under our real names verses pretend names?
Whatever happend to that?
Does anybody know. I understand there are all sorts of reasons people do not wish to say who they are but i kind of think if its worth saying we should be prepaired to own our comments,, so to speak.

It is very easy for people with an agenda to use olo to defame others causing damage.

Really I think the other posters have a right to know what was posted and why it was taken off and why a poster was banned and for how long.

I think make everything public to all readers.