As BC's unofficial Official Statistician

Nightlight and Vulcan Bomber aren't the only ones who consider BC's unofficial Official Statistician their lord and master. A number of other current and former BCers are still in that stage of almost worshiping the messenger instead of evolving past that to love the topics of the messages. Truth. Love. Faith. All the things you hate. Give them time. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 The cogs throw you a bone every once in a while. Even they can not pass up the chance to show "what team" they are on by making sure never to openly admit to agreeing with anything BC's Abused unofficial Official Cog's Pet says, even as they routinely rely on him to take care of the day to day informal moderation role here at BC. Despite what some haters like to spam under many informative posts, a number of habituates of BC appreciate the information from the regular volunteer over the instigations of a former fat cat donation whale. Emphasis on the former. As Manny loves to speculate: maybe some of our communication issues are a result of you not speaking proper American English. You speak with a South African accent, no? Wait no, that was that "other guy." You speak Australian English, so maybe in your lingo you perceive subservience and respect shown teachers in American culture to be something sinister. There is absolutely nothing wrong with students referring to someone they consider to be their teacher as "Lord" or "Master." Not confirming or denying that any individual in particular is part of any possible off board conversations that might have taken place, but if they did the group very well might have split up into a student/teacher atmosphere, but as all great masters know, we can learn as much or more from our subservients as they can learn from us.