StG Ludwig yes to both posts.
I see now and again an ex poster in these pages, who shared with me posting in the your rights at work pages.
I had to leave no other choice,a lunatic began posting rewards to kill or capture an American visitor!
Warnings became truth after the page was miss used badly.
had a brief spell in Robos NSW trades hall site.
And a long stay in another now gone, I visited many.
NOTHING comes near this.
Some are extremely foul.
Some over moderated and unwelcoming.
BUT we while sailing along very well, would do no harm by contributing.
Changes can be made, that are safe.
I must however advise against e mails being exchanged with out due thought.
We have seen catastrophic results.
I truly would have hoped this thread would bring debate.
About funding the site, or contributing to it.
We all must have noted a refugee from other sites briefly coming and near flaming, in the mistaken view we are such here to.
I do not know if I should, have thought about it for years,but considering a thread about acceptable ways of talking.
Trash talk, even inferring men are females and sex with ones mother are seemingly acceptable in some cultures?
We are lucky here.

<< do not know if I should, have thought about it for years,but considering a thread about acceptable ways of talking. >>

Sounds like a good general thread to me, Belly.

Perhaps if italics is a bit difficult, we could have a limited range of different font sizes or types.

Surely there is something that can be implemented which is not complex or expensive, which can just add a little bit of variety to the presentation.

Little changes every so often, so that the site evolves rather than staying just the same year after year, would be good to see.

-Ludwig- *I have found ways to show* highlighting*
Yes ok but this is private property,
Who pays?
Not saying we should not change just asking why not help?
A reasonable fee for service would not kill me,and I could pay fees for another who could not afford them.
BUT only if both he/she and me never knew who

Belly

I completely don’t know what might be involved in introducing a minor additional feature such as italics,

or what the financial situation is with OLO…

or what the value of my financial contribution (if I were to make one) to this site would be.

I would like to think that I am helping OLO by being a regular (long term and frequent) poster like you, and that this is worth much more than a small monetary contribution.

Indeed, the amount of time you and I spend contributing to OLO is really quite huge. It is the equivalent of a large financial contribution if we value our time at ?20$ and hour for argument's sake. This amounts to a very significant level of support for this website.

My feeling is that us regular contributors….. and there many of us on OLO….don’t need to contribute financially, as we make the site attractive to advertisers….and that is where the real money is.

I don’t think OLO could afford to introduce user fees. That would just deter people very quickly, no matter how small the fees might be.

What it needs is italics, different font sizes, types, colours, emoticons, etc, etc, to make the site more attractive….. and bring in heaps of new contributors…. thus making the site more attractive to advertisers…. and enabling Graham to both charge more for advertising and have more advertisers use his site.

Getting a bit off-topic, but one thing that eternally bugs me is that whenever you open up a thread, it goes to only the first page, and you have to hit the ‘all’ tab or the last page tab to get to the business end of the discussion!

I wish that either the last page would be set as the default or the whole thread would come up straight away …. preferably the latter.