I'll "third" the comments from PF and Celiva regarding safety, the level of personal attack from posters makes me rather glad that I'm not easily tracked down by some.

Likewise I don't want some of our religious fundies tracking me down to share their concern for my soul.

I wish to be able to discuss government run organisations like CSA without appearing on some special internal hitlist next time I have to deal with them. They are bad enough as it is.

I use aspects of my own circumstances and experience to support some of my views on family law issues and if my real name was published then it becomes fairly easy to identify others also involved. That raises another legal and safety minefield.

I've not seen a pattern which suggests that those of us who use nick names are inherently less responsible than those who use full names and make great efforts to identify themselves. There have been some very ugly posts written under full names.

R0bert

Thats exactly correct Robert..the people who use mutiple ids are doing so because they feel theyve been forced to because they have been unfairly targeted by moderators..they are responsible and caring people.

I would like to apolagise to PF because I have a feeling I unfairly accused her of having me banned and we were only just becoming friends..so I do hope you receive that in the spirit in which it was meant..a lot of tensions build up with all the unrest of late.

I believe my reasons for being banned where for reasons not totally
unrelated to you, but vicariously because of my association with Wendy and indirecttly you in relation to that..Wish you well PF.

I wont be using this forum again and so I hope you dont all drop the ball now..as the animal welfare and farming issues are very important.

You are a good and caring farmer PF(Lee)..sorry about using your tag

I certainly think that the PFdot imposter, is a worrying development
on OLO. I note that this was not their only posting. I also note
the Celivia dot imposter email alert, although that has been
deleted. No doubt the original Celivia, is not very impressed.

I hope that something can be done, to change those possiblities.

To those of you who think that you got such a raw deal on OLO,
stop and think for a minute if the system is really so unfair,
or if its just actually you and your irrational and eccentric
behaviour, that is really the problem. Sheesh, we are meant
to have grown beyond behaving like a mob of schoolkids on here.

I've been banned on OLO. I have some questions about that, but
I played by the rules, accepted the judgement of the judiciary
concerned, there is plenty to do beyond OLO.

C'mon guys and girls concerned, grow up.

I dont know were anyone gets the idea that I have had any kind of special treatment. I have been suspended twice, get warnings and have posts removed that I believed did not breach any rules but get deleted so they dont trigger a bad response from someone else. The difference is, I accepted Graham's decision and his reasons for doing so.

one post on this thread only .

I feel perhaps pensioners could if Graham is willing be granted free forum posting. That way it is equal opportunity for every person to have a say.

Those details would of course only be available to Graham Y.

This forum creates a lot of work so why shouldnt everybody else pay something at least.

Also people should post in their own names.

Otherwise it is far too easy for people who are not prepared to put a name to their post come in and attack either people or especially NFP organisations.

It could also has some repercussions for the forum owners. If the worst ''should" happened and people had a case for defamation Graham Y is put to the bother of having to identify those people through his system for the courts.

What a legal nightmare for the forum owner providing a free service.

One would hope this would be a rare if never event however it can happen.

On the other hand it also must be considered if its a slander case that the organisation , or person have fair and reasonable recall to [persue justice through the legal system.

So in short- Paid Membership other than pensioners and real names is what would make it far more fair and probably lead to a better class of posters in general.

No people should not be allowed to post in nick names.

Definitely not.

"OzGirl has been posting under a large number of names, and the other recent offenders appear to be related to PALE."

Says it all dont you think?