Bronwyn, After your recent post to the "Abortion: the silent majority" I wait with bated breath for you next post here.

I suggest something along the lines of "$%^&!@# 'Write new Post' Page. They very least they could bloody well do is put the name of the article you are posting to at the top."

rstuart

"Bronwyn, After your recent post to the "Abortion: the silent majority" I wait with bated breath for you next post here.

I suggest something along the lines of "$%^&!@# 'Write new Post' Page."

$%^&!@# $%^&!@# !! I don't believe it!!

Thank you for letting me know. I guess I would have realised eventually but I may never have figured out where it had actually gone. I'd never even read that thread; I only got onto it through following a link of RObert's. It's his fault; I'll blame him!

How horribly ironic! The very post in which I'm mouthing off about being careful to check posts first and about not posting on a wrong thread, and unbelievably what do I do but post it on a wrong thread! Hopefully the readers on that other thread don't read it closely enough to pick up on that glaring little stupidity!

"The very least they could bloody well do is put the name of the article you are posting to at the top."

Yes, I agree!! It's at the top when you're first writing a post (though obviously not in big enough writing for some!) but once you're at the preview stage it disappears.

By the way, I've been meaning to answer the survey question in your original post. My choice had been number three though after my above stupidity I think I should definitely "hide in my miserable hole and ignore it"! Seriously though, I would attend. While a Brisbane venue might suit some though, it probably wouldn't be much use to posters in other states.

Ludwig

I went to add the link to my misdirected post for your benefit as it was addressed to you. I copied the URL link onto my clipboard but couldn't figure out where to go from there I'm sorry! I'm sure it's simple but as you can see 'simple' does elude me at times!

“Oh, and an acknowledgement from someone on OLO that they are at least monitoring this thread would be nice. If nobody is then this is really a waste of time.”

Yes rstuart. I’m starting to feel a little bit peeved, having put a lot of thought into expressing problems and suggesting improvements, with no feedback.

^^^^

Thanks Bronwyn. Putting posts on the wrong thread is another very good reason for having a facility to easily get them removed/altered within a short time, without having to email Graham or Susan to request it.

I’ve never fallen into that trap…amazingly. But I have so often written a post and then not been able to post it, due to the number of posts in 24 hours rules. I don’t have a problem with these rules or the way they are presented. I’ve just about trained myself to check if I can post before I write anything. But I got caught out again this morning on the Corby thread. So I guess I’ll just have to live with that occasional frustration.

What about this idea:

A noticeboard that lists the top 100 posters by the number of posts they have submitted, and lists congratulations for every first-timer, every poster upon reaching 10 posts, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, etc.

This would be a nice touch. It would make us feel a bit more like valued members of the OLO family. It would alert posters to milestones achieved by others and prompt some congratulatory comments on the forum. I think it would improve goodwill all round.

This could be accessed via an icon at the top and bottom of each thread, along with the current icons; ‘new post’, ‘new discussion’, refresh this page’, etc. There is a nice little gap just made for it at the end of this row of icons.

Graham or Susan, do you think this would be a good idea, or a difficult one implement?

Old Loonywig has just clocked up 2000 posts on this forum. That’s one hell of a lot of hours put into OLO over the last two and a half years. It would have been lovely if just one other poster or the forum management team had noticed and put up some complementary message somewhere…..like he has done for others on several occasions (:>|

"A noticeboard that lists the top 100 posters by the number of posts they have submitted, and lists congratulations for every first-timer,"

Disagree on that. Knowing who everyone is, how long they've been around, how often they post and whether they're a newcomer is part of the OLO culture. Mostly newcomers are welcomed by other commenters, which strikes me as a more welcoming gesture than something automatically generated.

Over the years we've seen all sorts of things, from death notices to party invitations to stomping off in disgust. The majority of posters seem to only last so long before they just stop posting. Old hands get to be that way just by sticking around.

Something I always find interesting is sites with a meter showing how many visitors are lurking at a given time. It could just be me, but it's kind of nice to be acknowledged even if you're not a registered user but still one of a community of lurkers. And it always makes me feel I should leave a comment.

Chainsmoker, you disagree that there should be a mechanism whereby everyone can see who is new, who is one of the main contributors, etc, at a mouse-click, so that they may be congratulated if posters wish to do so. But you think that it is good for posters to know who everyone is and how long they’ve been around. That seems to be contradictory.

I don’t think newcomers are mostly welcomed by other posters. I see it very rarely. And I’m the only poster that has congratulated others on reaching milestone post numbers…as far as I know!

You prompt me to make another observation: The list of users currently online that appears on the main page of this forum doesn’t show all those online! I’ve known about this for a long time. Right at this moment, Ludwig’s online but his name dunna appear there!! Weird!