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[Phil Thomas]

As for why me?

I respond with another question Why not? It could have been anyone from amongst the many notice board readers who is in the subset that feel competent enough to post on the mathematics of grading systems.
Actually to do so I need also be in the subset of those who feel able to handle potential notice board abuse. To misquote David Deary it takes guts to post on this board and it takes guts to complain to moderators about unacceptable posts. To help David's thought processes rather then blame the board moderators perhaps that anonymous person has a high strike rate because the posts attacking him/her are more worthy of deletion?

Phil, I believe you posted these on the wrong topic. They ended up in the Council Meeting topic but they should have been here. I'm not a fan of debating a point with someone on different topics so I've quoted your post here and will reply to it here. I’m quite happy to debate the points with you provided we both play nice.

As you have unveiled yourself above as what I referred to earlier as the "perpetual complainant" I'm curious why you choose the option of going to the moderators first. Surely, it makes more sense for you to point out why you are unhappy with the post in a PM or E-mail to the poster to allow them to make amends for their post? I think this would certainly get a better response than badgering the moderators (which doesn't take guts). Also, I'm not convinced your strike rate is that high I suspect you complain about 10 times the number of posts that actually get moderated in some way. So I guess your 'strike rate' is maybe 10% at best.

A notice board that is far from dead. I counted yesterday 16 threads that had been active within the last 7 days. Many more and this board will start to look like the ECF forum - now would that be a good thing? - new thread anyone?

I don't think the new board is as active as the old one. Perhaps the mods or forum administrator can post some stats but to suggest that the last 7 days of activity are more statistically significant than the prior 21 months since the forums inception is a stretch.

If you look at the Board Index and sum the topics I got 593 topics excluding the archive if I divide that by 21 months X 30 days (630) = I get 0.941 topics a day. If I sum up the posts I get 6133 divided by 630 gives 9.73 posts a day. It doesn't strike me as particularly active compared to other forums I'm on but perhaps those aren't like for like comparisons.

David,
for your information I can recall making two requests for deletion of an offensive post.
On both occasions my request was accepted by the moderator.

If my memory and maths are both correct that is a strike rate of 100%

Since we are trading statistical data. How many time this month have you been onto the notice board to complain about a perpetual complainant? Would that number be higher than 2 by any chance?