The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann Forum (CMOMM) some facts and figures

Any stats I come up with here are to be taken at face value when you decide whether such Forums are of any use to you.  I don’t know whether they are good or bad because I have not compared them to any other Forum.  In any case, the personality of the Forum is probably more important, and whether this is a place you will love, or wouldn’t be seen dead in.  There again, looking at the structure of CMOMM does no harm and might be informative.

As I speak this morning there are 118 users on-line, 111 of them guests. The total number of registered users (members I guess) is 3,206, up from 2084 in November 2012 which tells us this Forum continues to grow at a healthy rate.  How much of the increase is due to a drive to enlist in October 2013, following the BBC Crime-watch re-enactment is not known but could be significant…who knows J  In any 24 hours there may be around 200 registered users popping in for a look-see.

The Forum owner ‘joined’ on 25^th November 2009 so we can take it that is when the Forum came on-line.  Interestingly, Tony Bennett, their most high profile member joined on that date too; I will leave you to make your own assumptions here. More peculiar, given his ‘national’ status, is his pervasive and very influential presence in the running of the Forum while not appearing to hold any official status.

The forum is policed and supported as follows.

Forum Owner

Co-Admin

Moderator

Forum Support

MM research Group

Knutsford Research Group

Fund and Private Tecs research Group

Madeleine Foundation.

All pretty impressive eh?  Well maybe, we’ll see.

Let’s take a look at these pretendy research groups.

The Madeleine McCann Research Group appear to be behind a publication entitled “50 facts about the Maddie case that the British Media are not telling you” At least according to one pro-McCann blogger I have found on the ‘net. (I told you it would be like this didn’t I?). It is manned by Forum members such as ‘Tigger’ and ‘PeterMac’ What is the poor, uninformed, prospective Forum member to make of this?

The Madeleine Foundation is a vehicle for Tony Bennett, publishing such titles as “The Madeleine McCann Case Files Volume 1” and “What really happened to Madeleine McCann? 60 reasons which suggest she was not abducted” A visit to the site has piqued my interest in Bennett and I shall be taking a closer look at him at some point.

The Knutsford Research Group enforcer.

Of course you've heard of them. They're big
in Research and Investigation don't you know.

The Knutsford Research Group draws a blank I’m afraid.  It may be something to do with the David Edgar/Arthur Cowley investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance set up by Brian Kennedy, a wealthy McCann supporter, which operated out of Knutsford.

The Fund and Private Tecs Research Group maybe is just that, somebody somewhere is looking into matters relating to the McCanns considerable No Stone Unturned fund, and maybe into the shenanigans involving the antics of the sometimes farcical private investigators Kate and Gerry have employed over the years.

All in all this offering  to prospective members by the Forum of serious research by research groups which sound like respectable bodies of integrity is a bit of a sham.  For research read propaganda maybe.

NOW IS THE TIME TO REMIND AND REASSURE PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN I HAVE NO BIAS!! Just a wish to inform!!

Tomorrow I want to continue with some stats, look at the Forum members who are officers assigned with responsibilities, and maybe start taking a peek inside what gets discussed in discussion groups.