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weebecka:

But I am very clearly suggesting that you guys that you need to be more considerate of the problems new posters have which you don't seem to understand or allow for. 

The overwhelming majority of "new" posters (for we were all "new" once) would appear not to have had the same experience on this forum as you have had. Therefore I would suggest the issue is with yourself and not with this forum!

If any "new" person wandered in to the pub/staff room/conference in the same arrogant, patronising, condescending and antagonistic manner that you arrived with, then I would probably expect them to either be ignored, countered or given a fairly rough ride.

Your communication skills are appalling, your offers of insight are fairly limited and have been somewhat taken apart, and your lack of self awareness is shocking.

I have found the Mathematics Forum and the overwhelming majority of its posters to be a welcoming, informative and supportive bunch who are more than willing to give up some of their time and insight to help others (as well as engage in deeper discussions on subjects).

The reaction you have engendered on this forum is solely down to the manner with which you approached it.

If the idea was to generare a "buzz" for you to take back to this presentation, then job done. However, if that was not the intention then I would suggest you need to do a serious amount of soul searching and brush up on your communication skills and self awareness before you dip your toe in again.

For someone who is to be presenting a session on discussion forums I would suggest that your mannerisms, posts and actions on here makes you one of the least suitable speakers out there.

 In addition to conversations by PM on TES, I've lost count of the number of posters who've emailed me for further advice or discussion of their issues.  I know for a fact that this applies to a large number of other posters on here.

 poeme - any update?  I keep checking your thread.

weebecka:

DM and has been systematically agitating things, distorting what I said and advising me badly and I'm interested to see why.

And you keep calling people "paranoid" ?

weebecka:

There are very few people I've annoyed in the maths teaching community, but the people who wrote the Excellence in Maths Leadership Materials for the NCETM.  (EiML) are an obvious exception and there seem to have been issues emanating from there since I pointed out that the materials were inadequate and needed to be rewritten (which they were and they were).

I think you've forgotten here that you're a complete nobody.

People are fed up with you because you are amazingly patronising.

Sadly most of the best examples of this are on the vanished thread.  When talking about mathematics it is difficult to judge your level of expertise and experience, but when talking about behaviour it is comically obvious you know the square root of sweet FA.

weebecka:

 

airy:

I saw that your attempts at facilitation were second rate

Absolutely.  I agree.  Actually I wasn't trying to facilitate at all

weebecka:

I was just talking about how I sorted out nightmare classes. 

weebecka:

But I am very clearly suggesting that you guys that you need to be more considerate of the problems new posters have which you don't seem to understand or allow for. 

weebecka:

Doubtless there will be plenty more.