I know many on this site like to argue and theres just a whole heap of info/technical data...but would the site be more interesting if management allowed more stories?
Not a great flood perhaps, but an increase.
I feel stories help.
They help people to understand how others have lived and what troubles they have gone through... and in many cases how those folks found solutions to the troubles.
I sit in on AA... and its great.
Its like a loving fellowship and the stories are marvellous.
We bond as close friends and we help each other.
So many people here have been to places and seen unusual things.
I think their stories would be a blessing to those who didnt travel with them but would have loved to have been there.

I'm sure there are many blogs where you can comment on life stories. I come here because I want to discuss news, current affairs and social issues, not talk about Gibo's odyssey as a young cop before schizophrenia ruled his life.

So my vote is for fewer life stories and fewer partisan political diatribes lacking evidence.

How about youre life story Sancho. Or dont you have much to say. A bland childhood leading to a bland adulthood?

Gibo, if we're blessed with the gift of delusion then yes - other lives will seem bland by comparison.

It's an unfortunate side effect of growing up and living in reality - we have to give up the flying saucers and prophetic conspiracy theories.

I'll admit, when I gave up those things life did seem a little less interesting. Or maybe it's just because the world seems bigger when you're eight years old.

That being said, comparing my life to other adult 'real' lives, I find mine is rather exciting actually, and I rather suspect I'm enjoying the road less travelled.

But alas, no grand battles between the forces of light and dark just yet.

So Graham doesn't (recently) allow topics that are basically just self indulgent narratives, but allows a topic complaining about the lack of such?

Yeh...guys I know what you say. But its all so bland here so often. Most lives seem small and dull and fixated on other peoples articles and answering them and very little comes from the heart or the memory.
Most of you are closed books. Isnt that a narrow road?

I guess is that the lives of those who post on this sites are probably for the most part a bit out of the ordinary. A lack of desire to put the important stuff of our lives up in a public space with no control over the readership does not imply blandness, rather some desire for privacy or control over who we share that stuff with.

There are some things I'd not like to share in a public forum but a "this is my life" with them left out would be dishonest.

Discussing the detail of someones story also gets messy. A poorly phrased sentence and the difference between flaming and comment could be very narrow.

R0bert

Sancho the site is Australian Politics too, so we talk politics but please remember not always my side or nothing.
A life long member of the ALP I often take my side to task.
Currently in NSW we are on death row.
And a leader out of touch with his rank and file, supported by a few from another planet are intent on our death.
Hows that for bias?
Gibo mate bland?
The site is doing well, we get a voice here we learn too.
Leave it as it is.

Gibo: Bland is not a word I would use to describe this forum- on the contrary, it has a great deal of lively debate and can be quite fun. It is extremely judgmental of you to assume the lives of OLO contributers are small and dull. You know nothing of the lives of contributers and based on your narrow minded comments- lets leave it that way.