Other than organic/permaculture type forums, I have only really contributed to this forum and the old Rights at Work forum. Both are of a high standard and opened up interesting comment and debate on politics and other lifestyle issues.

I am pretty happy with OLO and you do get an insight into the personality of the other users but the main satisfaction is in sharing ideas. I don't get a sense of clique even though it is obvious that some posters 'know' each other as well as one can on this medium.

Some of the article writers are pretty brave with their content, particularly those who condemn a whole section of society to irrelevance merely for not agreeing with their point of view. If I was writing similar I would expect a barrage of comments and would not play the disingenuous victim. But I think a couple of the more vitriolic article writers don't actually know what their thoughts imply - or maybe they do!

To Graham and the crew crew of OLO, I also think it is a great site and I almost get the feeling that many of us are sitting in a room somewhere sharing our thoughts.

Although I lock horns now and again, I have the upmost respect for most of the posters although I must admit I feel sorry for the ones who can't help but insult people they don't even know. They must lead a misserable life!

Keep up the good work. And belly, I would love to discuss easter saturday, I think I will call it 'why the extra public holiday'.

Cheers

I will come rechtub, yes we are better than a few months ago.
And I share the idea we can do better.
But we just have to understand some threads do not interest us all.
I too posted in your rights at work forum, it had things we do not have here, but while Forrest has good ideas maybe those of us who can, could pay something to help.
I read most threads but no way want to take part in some, is that wrong?
With respect StG I looked at your easter movie thread ,may look again, but will not post.
Room exists for all subjects but human nature says not every one will look at them all.

Graham

"The forum has slowed down a bit, although the overall site is still travelling well."

I think you need to work on the glitches in the system which to my mind are becoming more prevalent. I just wrote a detailed response to your new $43B thread, and when I went to preview it I got a grey screen with nothing but the following in the top lefthand corner - <tr bgcolor="#DB9C00". Not sure if it's relevant to anything or not, but I do know my work's gone and I won't be re-writing.

We shouldn't have to be writing our every post in a Word document first and transferring them across, purely to guard against the odd but increasingly annoying occasion that our work goes missing.

I'm a long term user of OLO and appreciate its benefits enough to stay with it regardless, but I wonder how many newer and less patient contributors you're losing through these stuff-ups.

Another time it happened I followed some sort of trail (couldn't begin to describe what it was now) in the hope of retrieving my lost work. I ended up in what looked a bit like a graveyard of I presume missing posts though I'm not sure, but there were pages and pages of them and with no seeming logic in their order, so I soon gave that a miss and won't bother with it again.

Do you really have any idea as to the extent of this problem? Is there a simple and easy way we can report it, every time it happens, so that you can start to get a proper handle on its pattern of frequency?

I value the site, but as you can probably gather through my tone I am losing patience with it.