Post by yellowperil on Mar 11, 2018 14:34:35 GMT
As I prepare to hand the baton over for the task of preparing this summaries of forthcoming elections, with just the single election on Maundy Thursday to come, I am looking back over the previous threads in the six years of the present forum, and how different people have set about it, often with a great deal more thoroughness than I could muster. I will have done about 25 threads in a little over half a year. Doktorb did a similar number to me, but with a great deal more to offer than I attempted. Our most distinguished predecessors, Maxque and Greatkingrat, both did 3 or 4 times as many. A lot of people have stepped in to the breach and done a few here and there when nobody else came forward, notably Andrew Teale and Robert Waller. A lot of you (dozens?) have made the odd intervention to mark usually a particular by-election they were interested in. Middleenglander has of course made his own particular and unique contributions without which the rest of us would have struggled a great deal more, and in the process has actually more threads than anyone except Maxque and Greatkingrat.
My own particular style has been to encourage a corporate effort and my lack of expertise and ability to make lots of errors have all contributed to that worthy end. A lot of you have helped me out / put me right when I was floundering. I hope in due course that might encourage more people to have a go for a while ( my thinking would be 6 months is probably a good stint) as it is a wonderful way to get up close to a whole range of by-elections in a way you probably don't if you merely browse this site, or similar ones or twitter, facebook and so on. Definitely something for relative newbies to consider!
My own particular style has been to encourage a corporate effort and my lack of expertise and ability to make lots of errors have all contributed to that worthy end. A lot of you have helped me out / put me right when I was floundering. I hope in due course that might encourage more people to have a go for a while ( my thinking would be 6 months is probably a good stint) as it is a wonderful way to get up close to a whole range of by-elections in a way you probably don't if you merely browse this site, or similar ones or twitter, facebook and so on. Definitely something for relative newbies to consider!