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Feedback: Scatological scorecards

3 June 2015

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Scatological scorecards

SEVERAL times a week, Feedback receives alerts from the . We welcome them; our colleagues even find some alerts useful. But we are puzzled by a common streak running through them: an apparent fixation on matters scatological (7 June 2014). We promised then to score each alert out of 7 (that being as good a magic number as any).

Our impression is confirmed by the last three announcements at the time of writing: “piglets…

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