Didn't want to start a new thread unnecessarily.

I'm a member of Ars Technica Team Vino Rose. Our captain has been inactive for over four months and is unreachable. Could an admin appoint a new captain, someone who is active? After much discussion on the Ars Technica Open Forum, we've decided to do a spot of team renaming. This has been fine and straight forward where the captains are regular and active members of Ars Technica, be it on the forums or the IRC channel. However, EG, the captain of our Rosetta team isn't.

If you could help us out with this it'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Biggles

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Thanks. So far I've not heard from EG, nor has he appeared on the Ars Technica forum. I haven't been on our IRC channel much, but there are some there who know of our BOINC team renaming and would have brought it to his attention. As far as I know EG hasn't contacted any other member of the team either.

So we are still effectively captainless.

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That'd be great, thanks for your help.

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We've been unable to contact this team's founder. As a result, we've reassigned Biggles as the team founder for the time being. Biggles can hand this off to whomever you folks wish to be the team founder....

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Much appreciated. The team renaming has already been done and we've brought TVR inline with the rest of our BOINC teams. Only SETI and Predictor to fix now...

Cheers
Biggles

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Hi Mod

I propose that you unsticky the largest problem report threads and create new ones instead.

They are just to large now.

Regards

Anders n

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Good.

thank you

Anders n

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Here's a great way you can help Rosetta. Delete fake accounts that are used for nothing more than trolling purposes. Here is one prime example.

wanky = Angus

He's been caught doing this over at SETI and Predictor as well! I expect this post to be moderated out of existance, but as long as you mods know about it then it has served its purpose.

The ID "wanky" which you reference, was created on March 12, 2006, has made no posts but has 15,000 credits associated with it, and a RAC of 2851. This could hardly be characterized as a "trolling" ID, used only for posting on the forums. If you compare the available stats on the ID "wanky" with your own for example, you will note that in your case you have posted almost 150 times on Rosetta, but you have only accrued 25 credits, and have a RAC of 2. There are many thousands of IDs that have credits and no posts so in reality this particular ID fits the profile of an average user at Rosetta. From the point of view of a user of the system it would not be possible for you to determine if the two IDs you mention are even owned by the same user. This is not even easy for the Systems Administrators. However, should ANY ID become problematic, I can assure you that the project will remove it. In this case there is no indication of any problems with the ID "wanky".

Mod9 perhaps some coffee will help you out. I'd think a mod would not mistake an account ID (149) for the post count (18) unless your error was made in your haste to lecture me. The wanky acct on the other projects were also made long ago and have credits.. and are NOW being used by Angus to spam the boards. (As of this edit the name has been changed to willy1.) It is a mistake to make your determination on an account based on credits since those same credits come from the same set of computers and would normally go towards the original. I'll post links below for you to read as far as the "proof" goes. But in a nutshell he was caught changing the username over at Predictor. Then he admitted it over at SETI. As you have already read my other post you know that it was to bring the issue to your attention, which I have succeeded. How you deal with the information, if you choose to do so, is your business.

From my point of view the thread is owned by the person who opened it. While a user involved in a discussion will on occasion post a request for a thread to be closed. As a matter of forum etiquette, it is a REQUEST, not a posting directly closing the thread. As a moderator, I will honor those requests if they come from the person who opened the thread. I will only honor them from another user if the owner concurs. Under any other circumstances such posts will be treated as spam or flaming and will be deleted.

Yes it is spill over and you have just proved my point to Angus where he has deliberately spammed threads for the only fact that they were closed by the thread author. Thank you!

There have been more supporting evidence but this was the original post. Since the acct name was just recently changed you'll have IP info to go with it. Admin can check the weblogs against both accounts. As I have said previously you can delete this whenever you want as it was meant only for you mods.

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me@rescam.org

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Yes it is spill over and you have just proved my point to Angus where he has deliberately spammed threads for the only fact that they were closed by the thread author. Thank you!

There have been more supporting evidence but this was the original post. Since the acct name was just recently changed you'll have IP info to go with it. Admin can check the weblogs against both accounts. As I have said previously you can delete this whenever you want as it was meant only for you mods.

"Misfit"
It occurs to me that this sort of thing might be handled better by using the mod9 e-mail contact. Especially since, as was noted, the wanky ID has not even posted here. If what you say is true, this sort of discussion will only serve to provide yet another opportunity for a flame war.

In my experience with his posting, he does not need much encouragement to set him off, and he certainly does not need to be provided the opportunity that this discussion provides him to spout off. From what I have seen, the Mods probably already know there is a problem anyway. Note his thread attacking the Rosie Mods for some supposed power grab, when in fact it was a CPDN mod.

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We Must look for intelligent life on other planets as,
it is becoming increasingly apparent we will not find any on our own.

and a RAC of 2851.

I forgot to add.. actual RAC is only 124 (Synergy stats). It's been a month since the last return.

@Snake: I read about the CPDN mods; that was unfortunate indeed. With the name change to willy1 he's obviously active with it... and it allowed me to find another one over at SETI. I understand it hasnt been used to post here.. but there is always that first time, as was on the other two projects. Perhaps after this it will not occur here. Anyway, good idea with the mod email. Since I'm sure this will all soon disappear they can include it with the moderation notice if they wish to continue off board. Bye bye. ;)

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me@rescam.org

I don't want to take part on Rosetta@home any more. Is there a way to delete my account on Rosetta@home by administrator?

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I don't want to take part on Rosetta@home any more. Is there a way to delete my account on Rosetta@home by administrator?

There is no way I know of that you can delete your account. The Administrative staff can do it, but they usually do not worry about having old account around.

However you can simply "Detach" from the project using the BOINC Manager "Detach" Function.

1) In BOINC Manager, click on the "Projects" tab.
2) Select the Rosetta Project by clicking on it
3) On the left of the window a number of buttons will appear, in the list of buttons marked as "Tasks" the last button is the "Detach" button. Click the detach button and your computer will be disconnected from the project.

Your account records will still be kept on the server, and if you decide to come back you can do so at any time.

If I might ask, why do you want to leave?

I want to leave because I have got some problems while processing the workunits: On the one hand my Linux machine don't finish the workunits and I have to kill them manually. On the other hand my CPUs become too hot while working on Rosetta@home. Thus Rosetta@home is not my favorite BOINC project.

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I want the Moderators in put on what I posted in this thread:

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=1489

TIA

Jose

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This and no other is the root from which a Tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
Plato

Hello:

I would like to call your attention to
ABORT THESE JOBS on the Number Crunching thread.

Thanks,

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dag
--Finding aliens is cool, but understanding the structure of proteins is useful.

FAQ thread, link to Unofficial Wiki = old place. needs changing to http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx
(in the index post)

Also would be nice to link to Rosetta in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta%40home

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Team mauisun.org

http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Main_Page = new wiki main page

if you're talking about the addy in this post in "team credit" thread, it was copied and pasted from the Wiki itself and is wrong. Someone should edit that page of the wiki.

FAQ thread, link to Unofficial Wiki = old place. needs changing to http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx
(in the index post)

That is the link that was used. It was provided by tony. The only difference between the one you provided and the one in the FAQ is that the link in the FAQ goes direct to the info on teams.

Strange, it went to a differnt link for me/I'm going mad*

delete as applicatble, option 2 looks good

Also would be nice to link to Rosetta in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta%40home

Someone else is working on updating the WIKIPEDIA.

That should read- "link to the 'Rosetta@Home page in the Wikipedia' in the Rosetta FAQ's, maybe place it where the BOINC Wiki is link to.



option 2 is looking very good at this point, but it all made sence to me when I typed it :-s


EDIT just before I hit post as I double checked.
!!!

- In the FAQ's here on the Rosetta@Home forum (as linked in your signature)
- The INDEX (either first or last post depending on how you look at the forum, last for me)
- In the comments after where it say this line
For additional information or more detailed answers to your questions about Rosseta@home, the BOINC client software or other BOINC projects visit the Unofficial BOINC WIKI.
The BOINC WIKI part points to the old site http://boinc-doc........

But you can use option 2 anyway :D

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Team mauisun.org

When, if ever, will the "merge host" function be re-enabled for Rosetta?

I know that it was disabled some time ago when it was discovered to be the likely cause of several server crashes.

I'm not agitating for it's return (well, not much :p ) but I would like to know if there are specific plans and/or a timeline in place for the return of that function.

Please consider this a very low priority query.

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!

The next update of the server software should turn this on again. I have no specific details of when that will be, but it is undergoing testing on RAPLH at this time.

Thank you! :D

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!