StG: LOL!! It so is! We all come here addicted just like alcoholics go to AA meeting and preach it like a religion. They actually believe that alcohol is the cause of everything wrong in their lives and if they can only find peace there, and if they don't go, they will die? Plus they're such a bunch of depressing ppl who are lying to themselves. I know what they are tho. They are lost. I will write about that another time, my views on alcoholics...

I don't think it's depressing here btw! Its funny and interesting and eductional. Better then school where my mom had to throw the white board duster at me coz I was so bored and always slept at boring classes. The history books back home is so full of nonsense. They actually teach us that the legendary warriors had magical powers. Unbelievable!!

The link posted by one under god on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 at 5:41:31 AM is to the comments thread to GrahamY's article ''On Line Opinion' - the next iteration', published on 11 October 2010.

oug did well to draw users' attention to this discussion.

The link posted will always deliver a viewer to that article thread, even after it becomes archived (ie. when users can no longer post to the comments thread to that article), and the article itself can always be brought up in a separate browser tab by clicking the 'view article' button at the top or bottom of the comments page.

Newer OLO users may be unaware that that article no longer appears on the default display of the articles index page, it now being more than one month since its publication. This fact may be of importance to any user wishing to monitor the posting of any new posts to that thread. The article can be brought back into view on a user's index display by clicking on the '... having been started' button, selecting the option 'one quarter back', then clicking the 'Display' button right beside it.

Any recent posts to an article are probably most visible if a user selects the 'last post' order of display, obtainable by clicking the bold text 'last post' at the top of the right hand index column.

My point in raising this is to advise newer users of the fact that article discussions become automatically archived if no posts have been made to them for a period of around (I think) 21 days. So if a thread like the comments to Graham's article, which solicits ideas as to how the site can be best sustained, is to be kept 'alive', then users will have to continue to make suggestions.

Given users' willingness to post to this somewhat salacious thread, it might inform them as to the background against which the moderation workload of the site has to be handled for them to read the article, and, if able, make some constructive suggestion or comment.

Rusty Catheter:"the glorious people's republic of Pomerania"

seems to be something of a failed social experiment.

Deep Blue, I do believe you are doing just fine. I tried to throw together an example of being infuriatingly agreeable but was starting to sound like Foxy so have to rethink the tone I want to achieve. Probably learn a few more big words.

For Stg…
OLO grant me the access on site ;
to accept that some opinions are crap;
courage to make the effort to change them;
and wisdom to know when to give up.

Forrest I am lost when it comes to the technical side of running a site, I still don’t know what a sticky thread is or a hyper link. I’m not even sure if a blog is a website or some link to one or a standalone thing.

But if we are going to be made to behave perhaps a little more socially pleasant and react a little less personally I am willing to give it a go.

Rather than Graham cop the flack for every little deletion I’d probably suggest more moderators and an explanation of the post being deleted is a bonus but not necessarily who made the call to delete it given. I reckon Graham should do other stuff and assign a post executioner.

TPP bit concerned here, not with you I am a fan.
But I feel this thread has been worth while, now I see a bit of unhappyness with foxy, not sure what is said in other places.
Strongly think I do no wrong in airing my concerns about past events.
Know its up to me, no one else to find answers.
But I walk on glass, not sure I should say it.
But must, the recent deleations had to happen, ANY ONE WHO SAW KNOWS.
I am carefully avioding other thoughts I hold as a result.
My new [yet again] tactic of avioding what trouble I can is in play.
We got good use out of this thread good reasons to all make an effort to keep this site going.
But lets not take the freedom to be ourselves away or the right to differ.

Belly now you have me wondering. "now I see a bit of unhappyness with foxy"

Where do you see that? I have seen it in past thread's but I can't see it here, am I missing something.

R0bert