Teddie comment - I apologize for, possibly out of line - but read like an attack by CA on a single team to me.


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I hope this thread does not get locked


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No more flames...the ice cream is melting

While I was a bit bummed out about not being able to post this past weekend, I totally understand why WCG chose to temporarily suspend posting to the forums.

First, I would like to applaud WCG and the CAs for the restraint they have shown by not making impulsive and emotional responses to posts that would have likely just fanned an even larger scale, all-out flame war. I never posted over on grid.org because whenever I checked out the forums all I saw was outright rudeness and out of control flames filled with disrespect. I came over to WCG and was pleasantly pleased to find an overall very friendly group of people. (I am very glad I got to know WCG before this "controversy" brewed up, otherwise I likely would have formed a very different opinion!) I for one am thankful that the WCG staff made the decisive effort to stop things before they got any uglier than they already did. No matter how much anyone feels they were "wronged", there was no need to dredge things thru the gutter with child-inappropriate language, personal attacks, or insults.

Secondly, I would like to point out that WCG members here want and expect software bugs to be fixed, enhancements to be implemented, statistics to be posted quicker, etc etc. Well folks, that takes TIME AND RESOURCES to accomplish. And if those resources are too busy cleaning up inappropriate postings then how/when do you expect them to get around to making all those requested software changes....hmmmmm??? (Last time I checked, there was no such thing as a Bug-Fix Fairy with a magic wand to swoop in during the night to get these things done!)

The main purpose of WCG is for people to CRUNCH, not to post to these forums. To be able to post at all should be considered a privilege, NOT a right. Having teams, team and game forums are all essentially "perks" to donating our CPU time. Take a look at the WCG mission statement... where does it mention forums??

The ability for any of us to post to forums here is mutually exclusive of the crunching project. I bet that in theory the WCG staff could decide that its just not worth the never-ending headache of dealing with all this drama, and simply shutdown all the community forums permanently, leaving only read-only notices of bug reports, system downtimes, etc. I for one would HATE to see that happen, since I think the team spirit that normally is seen in the community forums adds a FUN little bonus to this humanitarian effort. So it behooves us all to be on our best behavior, and not let disagreements degrade to insults and flame wars.

Thats my opinion. Thank you...

Good night all -- time to get my beauty sleep (problem is, I'd need about a hundred years to begin to get it to work). I have enjoyed the company this evening.