Do you want to get banned over at Predictor@Home
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23 Mar 2007 20:11:36 UTC
Topic 192548
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Over at Predictor@Home they are banning all users who post anything that they are not 100% in favor of. At least 20 people from BOINC Synergy and BOINC@Heidelberg were banned today.
This started when someone asked about the person who had there credits taken away at other projects due to haveing BOINC installed as a WINDOWS update on hundreds of systems.
It got to the point whare any posting got people banned, any ware from 2 weeks to 21 years. I have a 21 year ban just for asking if anyone has heard more about the accusations of them selling there results.
They now have account creation turned off, I guess that they don't want people crunching for them.
Try the Pizza@Home project, good crunching.
Do you want to get banned over at Predictor@Home
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This post (a starter for a new thread) lasted about 10 seconds:
Is it really that offensive to merit an IP-block? (because that's what happened afterwards).
Grüße vom Sänger
Now I feel left out, only you
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Now I feel left out, only you and ThEfT got the IP block, the rest of us just our accounts blocked.
Try the Pizza@Home project, good crunching.
Hmm. Having read through the
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Hmm. Having read through the threads, I'd have to say it's no poster child for moderation skills, but the childishness of many of the posters needs to be read to be believed.
--miw
I have heard much about the
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I have heard much about the ridiculousness of the Predictor@Home moderators. But, I cannot attest to it, nor deny it. But, if the accusations are true. I would think twice before joining such a project. Maybe it's time to thank the E@H team for being exceptionally reasonable compared to other projects.
d3xt3r.net
i never ran my CPUs for
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i never ran my CPUs for Predictor@Home but thanx for warning - if i ever turn to that project i will investigate it first.
My top arguments when choosing any DC projects are:
1) useful to the civilization
2) results are put to public domain
3) source code and documentation are open for everyone interested
and one more thing - a great site i find about active and upcoming DC projects
http://distributedcomputing.info/
RE: i never ran my CPUs for
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I also reviewed http://distributedcomputing.info.
That site has much information to offer, about projects. I looked over projects to possibly participate with. But, for the time being, I am only on E@H.. But very informative site. :)
d3xt3r.net
Censorship has been working
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Censorship has been working again 2 days ago (user account deleted, credits deleted, team 'Banned for Life' deleted, posts deleted, IP banned again).
A big shame...
Seems luckily that the team here is more mature.
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This has not been described
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This has not been described to many of our satisfaction. Why?
Founder of BOINC group, Objectivists, a group of philosophically minded rational data crunchers.
RE: Censorship has been
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Well, just for the record, there is another project that has
gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and currently
their web site is down again. The term "gross mismanagement" comes to mind.
Freedom of Speech is a cherished right in every democracy and democratic institution.
Well, I'm not quite seeing
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Well, I'm not quite seeing how a major hardware failure of one of their newest servers has much to do with censorship, or mismanagement of the project. IINM, the Master Science Database is single of point of failure problem for just about all of the projects, including this one.
The main reason you can't get to the site is because people have not bothered to set their hosts to stop pestering the scheduler for work that just isn't there to give.
Alinator