No need to apologise, Benny, it’s not important and I get my wires crossed so often it’s not funny! The mistakes I have made on OLO are nothing to be proud of, like the RSPCA QLD post (where I forgot to add QLD).

I don’t want to take credit for my last suggestion about last discussed threads moving to the top; I’ve actually seen it work on another forum and I thought it was perfect. I should have mentioned that it was not my own idea; it was not my intention to take credit for someone else’s idea. (The extra ‘take it to the carpark’ voting button idea was mine). There ya go- another thing I forget to mention!

Yes Benny, I also do give GY credit for dealing with all of us ‘complainers’ ;)

Oh I do have another suggestion (yes of my own ) ;)
If posters who flame or offend can be suspended for a few days and their posts deleted, then it may be possible for long-term, well-behaved posters (say after a certan amount of non-offensive and non-flaming posts) to earn an extra post a day or perhaps some extra words in their posts (perhaps 400 instead of 350). This could be a temporary privilege or longer lasting.
This way we would be able to see more posts or words by reasonable people on OLO and less by the offenders.
Just a thought

Well, I dont think the carpark in this format is going to work very well. It would be more aptly named the 'boxing ring'. Too many will sit back and watch the fight and when its over, and they are all 'punch drunk' they can come in and have a say on something that is none of their business. The only way around that is if they could control access to the thread and I cant see that happening.

Celivia - we are not in primary school. Should we give out gold stars to the good little posters that never ruffle any feathers? A system of "oh, I better not say that, I wont get an extra post" will hardly encourage open opinion.

Celiva Robert
Read all your ideas. Good ones. So people wont like them because they have no repect for others.
Keep up your great ideas and it is a credit that you think how you can make things run a little more fairly.
Good Work Robert on your car park thread.
Jolly good thinking. If there were more people in this world like you it would be a much nicer place.

*- I noticed Robert on the forum front it said last post five days ago. Yet these posts have been put up after that.
Thought you might like to check it out yourself.
That seems to happen on a few different threads. As you are putting in the hard work to draw people to the car park I thought someone should let you know .
Great site by the way.

Yes PF i agree about the 'gold stars ' comment...i imagine that this would influence the way we post..I do however believe this is a good idea to solve disputes between posters..it really not a problem for me that others come in for a look...its only natural curiosity after all.

I would hope this thread remains, because there is no other alternative for problem solving other than this..

Is it my imagination, but does it seem the Carpark thread has slipped to the bottom of the General Discussion Index very quickly?

Unless you click on pge 50 or more we wont find any of these threads we are crrently on..can we bring them back to the top somehow?