I've previously put up the idea of a daily word limit (in hindsight that probably should be a daily character limit). Perhaps combined with relaxed post limits (to avoid 700 one word posts cluttering OLO or whatever the 1 character post limit would be).

Perhaps a different spread of posts (2 under 35 word posts per day and 2 longer posts). Sometimes I feel it's important to give an acknowledgment, correct an error etc quickly but need some more time to consider a longer response or to wait for comments on what's already been written.

The flow of conversations could be helped by some changes but the difficulty comes in limiting the opportunities for changes to be abused.

R0bert

Rrrrrrgh! I’ve just become REALLY annoyed at not being able to put up a third post on today’s ‘Sorry, global warming has not been cancelled’ thread. I’ve got to wait 12 hours!! Sheeeeeesh!

Oh Cool Bronwyn! It's 'timely' hey!

Hello Graham

I’m seriously asking for four posts per day on the article threads.

I really do think that it would improve OLO.

Posters would be happier and article writers would be happier if they get more posts in response.

And I don’t think that there is any significant downside.

Could we…pretty please…have four posts on article threads. Or a compromise – three??

OK, now this thread has dropped off the general thread main page, as it is over a month old.

But it is still active!

It can be accessed if you hit the 'three months back' option or longer periods back options.... but who's likely to do that?!

Surely all threads that are still active should appear on the front page list, even if you've got to scroll down to see them all, while those that have become inactive having not been contributed to for three weeks could drop off.

This seems like an obvious setup to me.

As it now is, this thread is virtually doomed to no further comments....from anyone 'cept me ( :>|

Also, as I have stated previously on threads of this sort, I find it most unfortunate that no one from OLO has come on to it, especially given that I addressed the opening post to the moderator.

Oh well, happy New Year to everyone who may read this...which will probably only be one person - Laurie!!

Sorry Ludwig you got that wrong.
I open 100 posts back and 3 months every time I visit.
And threads continue sometimes for a very long time after they start.