Phil, everything you put forth is your opinion. I would like to know in what logical sense is the topic of boardmarks is an off topic post.
"but in reality they don't mean anything" well, as I said before, why then do they even exist if not as a numerical indicator of something, and with no "topical" ability to measure a numerical indicator over time why does it exist on every frigging board?
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson