Hey why dont we give credits by the percentage of time the computer is crunching for Rosetta only> The larger your Rosetta Share the larger the credits.

The problem is not the medium, but the message.

perhaps you're afraid a php board will limit the size of signature lines? btw, what's his name?

You can have the biggest. bestest, whiz-bang mesage board ever, but if the project people don't post it's all a waste.

If I could lock a thread and remove individual posts I would, but the only option is to delete.

Good thing would be for the new forum code to be uploaded that allows devs & mods to bar people from the message board system for upto 2 weeks in a row

I wish it was that easy. The problem is we don't have the ability to edit messages.

I don't have the ability to edit, unfortunately.

David Kim's only visible post from the last 24 hours (of two) is to tell us that he's going to install more ways to block people from posting.

David Baker won't post here, but will post on the XS site about the backdating topic, and his only two other posts have likewise been hidden in the banned thread.

The only other project representative - Ethan - hid the thread that has the majority of the discussion on the whole issue.


And - you wonder why this project has MAJOR PR problems? Gee... who would have thought. All the goodwill that's been generated over the last 6 to 8 months has been flushed away. No longer is Rosetta the model BOINC project that's renowned for it's communication with members.

The PHP forum is far easier to moderate than the boinc forums, simply because there are more tools at hand (thread locking, editing, private messages, banning of IP ranges, ...). The single most useful tool is private messages - the benefits of being able to have a quiet word with somebody without involving everybody else are enormous.

Dr Baker Wrote :

Please remember everybody, I'm a scientist trying to solve science problems, and I am relatively new to the sociology of distributed computing. I don't think it is true that the complainers are having a disproportionate influence over the project. The new credit system was proposed by many people over the past months, and I don't think anyone thinks it is not reasonable.
The problem with the offensive posts is very hard to deal with--it would require a full time moderator which we don't have (it is basically me and David Kim right now, and I don't even know how to delete stuff and believe me I have a zillion other things to do as well--trying to deal with this issue is certainly making it difficult to focus on science today). And the boinc developers are already swamped and can't make changes to address these issues either.
PLEASE--try to think about the science and the benefits to humanity, and ignore the taunts from the little guys--they just don't matter--and I hope all this will blow over soon. You have been making a fantastic contribution, and I would hate to see this cause any disruption to our collabortive efforts together.

Vester -

No one is saying you can't be here, contribute to the forums, and crunch for Rosetta. I'm sure the project and everyone else participating appreciates the power that's brought here.

However - I DO resent the fact that a few of the FaD'rs came in here back around January and made a horrendous row for weeks (maybe months) over why this forum couldn't be changed to be like the FaD forum. Now, almost 8 months later, the SAME topic is brought up again. THAT's what ticked ME off, and why I made the post I did.

The project gets to decide what the forum looks like in form and function, and they've made that decision, and put the moderators in place to keep it this way.

Enough said.

I think many of these ideas have great merit but in some of them I see problems that inhibit the efficiency of implementation.