dickie: "I am disappointed in Samsung and RStuart, who seemingly place themselves above others"

Seemingly would be the correct word I think. I hope others (ie non animal rights activists) don't see my words in the same light. Certainly it wasn't how they were intended.

I made the statement based on what I saw - not because of some dislike for animal rights activists. They really do display the most extreme behaviour of all posters here. It is admittedly a bit hard to gauge as there is no comment deletion history, but nonetheless I think its accurate characterisation.

You probably don't believe me dickie, so I here is a single indecent which I think is unique and illustrates my point. Wendy (an animal rights activist) paid for membership of this site. The membership was paid via PALE. Wendy/PALE or someone (it's hard to figure out because PALE has several people posting under the same identity) then got banned. I don't know why, but they seemed to get banned fairly regularly at one stage. Its not surprising as at one point they had to be warned not to threaten to sue posters for deformation. Their response tell the bank they paid money to be allowed to post to the forum, and asked for the payment to be reversed since they were not getting the service they paid for.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=64#8000
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1667#33661

pelican> "the forum is anti-women"

Anti-feminist would be an accurate portrayal, if any were to be made. This desire to play the misogynist card is deceitful and dishonest and those spreading such notions are equally deceitful and dishonest.

However, many feminists are anti-female, if that is what you meant as they want to control other women through exercise of government power.

Your post is exactly what I was referring to Steel. If you are going to quote someone do it with integrity. The whole quote was:

"The only thing that I don't like about OLO is it is very anti-female at times but I guess that can be ignored."

Saying the Forum is anti-female at times is not saying the Forum is anti-female only some of the posters, some of the time.

And you have the nerve to sprout off about deceitfulness and dishonesty. Good grief. You need to take a good honest look in the mirror.

We women are so powerful and dominating; that explains why there are so many female politicians and CEOs (NOT)

rstuart

Thanks for that very interesting tally.

I don't suppose it's possible to tally the breakdown of posters by sex because of the use of aliases. But would it be possible to do a breakdown of article authors by sex?

I for one really love OLO. I enjoy reading other people's point of view and can honestly say I have learned a great deal about all sorts of things thanks to the interaction on this site.

OLO can also be great fun and provides many a laugh. So, does it really matter about the relevance or significance of OLO? The fact that it continues as strongly as ever answers that question.

So Polycarp is Boazy?

Just out of curiosity- why do people change their contributer name on OLO? Isn't it a bit redundant if everyone already knows who it is?

Yair thanks for the figures rstuart.

Phew, I’m not in the top five most obsessive nutcases on OLO! That’s a relief!

I think I come in at no.6! ( :>/

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TammyJo, yes OLO can be entertaining. But for a serious social and environmental debater like me, it’s also got to be meaningful and significant in the bigger picture. I think it is.

I’ll have to disagree with US who thinks that it is of very little significance or that it isn’t worth the effort of trying to assess just what its worth really is or what the value is of the time that you put into it.

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I wish that there was a bit more colour, different fonts, different text size, italics and bold options…and the potential to use a wide variety of emoticons and even illustrations! All of this sort of stuff would really add to the attractiveness and entertainment value with out detracting from the professional presentation of the forum....wouldn’t it?