Indy that first remark would kill OLO if used.
Belly,
So, what you're saying is in fact an admission that there are too many do-gooders ? Of course we can't always agree, I mean there are a hell of a lot of users yet the the vast majority don't appear to post. It'd be interesting why that is. Are they simply just silent observers or do they think they can't or bother to contribute ? I can imagine that the pointless point-scoring that does take up too much space could be a put-off for the sincere minded.
I have said it before that I would like to see the age & sex of the poster included i.e. User 47 M or User 35 F. This would be very helpful in my opinion for those who watch this forum to form informed opinion.

individual..age discrimination?

ps im 104 year sold..
sp please./.just allows me to blather..
or worse ignore..the 5 year old...with..an inteligrent question..or opinion?

heck..once i find out people age sex..
my posting style changes..and i hate that extra burden..[of writing to sex age race belief etc..]

what next marital status or iq?

UOG,
that's the kind of blathering that could be eliminated. Where does discrimination come into this ? Aren't you at all interested in how society could be bettered ? It would also be a real positve to keep religion out of discussions about bettering the Nation.

"UOG,
that's the kind of blathering that could be eliminated...."

Yo - individual's championing censorship, but only for posters with whom he disagrees.

Why am I not surprised?

Hi Graham

Thanks for asking, and for all your good work.

Main thing is the ability to conduct a sub-conversation within a thread. For example, the old newsgroups. Jo Nova's blog is an example.

So a thread might look like this.
A
B
C

then someone wants to answer B, so he adds his bit, so the whole thing looks like this:
A
B
b1
C

then someone answers that:
A
B
b1
b2
C.

And so on.

Other thing is the ability to quote others, to italicise and other such basic formatting.

Rather than threads opening up at the top of the comments, I would very much like to see them open at the bottom, which is the active end.

With the current setup you virtually have to open every thread twice. You open it once and get only the first page Then you hit ‘All’, or perhaps the last page, and wait for it to load again!