Rasterhead: hello mate, you may know me as Bruce Bruce
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to come here and provide some explanation as to the Moderator's attitude at the F@H Forum.
A little about myself. Apart from spending time here, I'm also an Admin at Bitbenderforums, the would-have-been F@H team that seems to have ruffled so many feathers.
We were top 30 in the UD crunching teams and top 20 with Find-a-drug. That, I'm sure you'll agree, is a fair bit of crunching commitment and some considerable donation to a cause wishing to help humanity as a whole.
Perhaps we've been spoilt, but we've been used to our recruiting threads in each projects forum being allowed for just that - recruitment. If a potential team member sees a freindly bunch of peeps waffling about a load of old nonsense, they may be attracted to that team, odd as that may appear to the F@H Mods & Admins.
Two arguments don't hold water here, the first being that we should go to our own forums and 'chit chat'. We do that already and we're unlikely to recruit members from within our own community, are we? The only way to attract new blood is to go to the hub of the project - the project Forum.
The second argument that's a non-starter is that scientists would have to wade through reams of one smiley posts to access valued information. No, they'd just stay away from the team recruitment threads, problem solved.
The Bitbender recruitment thread seems to have been the catalyst for all the unrest, following a comment from Bruce, a F@H moderator. For the life of me I still can't see what he objected to. I can understand his objections to some replies following his orders, but until he asserted himself, the thread looked to be progressing in an orderly enough manner.
To my mind Bruce and OC_AMD are just egocentric bullies, pushing their weight about just because they can. They are ably supported by a group of sycophants such as macaholic as well. To my mind they are in severe need of an attitude injection and a sense of humour transplant.
It also occured to me they may be wary of the competition. All teams that were 'picked' on are formidable crunching teams.
I notice that threads are still carrying on at the F@H Forums where we're still being criticised but as we're now toothless (I've been banned, along with others) we cannot reply. Macaholic has now linked to one of our team threads at BBT.
Folding At Home is a noble project. From what I can understand F@H has been around the longest and has made the biggest research contributions to the scientific and medical communities.
I first started crunching with F@H, with team Icrontic, back in '99 or 2000 but was then swept up with my team to start with UD, where I then donated almost ten years of crunching time, all from my own machines.
I do this because it benefits us all, helping to find cures for diseases can only be a good thing.
I) A comment on the behaviour of some people the Team forums - I saw a lot of boisterous activity that went on for a while - and then a few Old Folders politely asked some folks to pay attention to what was going on and tone it down. The responses from posters fit into a few categories such as -I haven't read your rules and they don't apply to me anyway.- This is the way we did it over there and we are going to do it here too. - If I don't get my way, I will not only pack up my crayons and leave, but I will actively try to hurt you. The response from the Moderator was to lock their thread.
That is untrue.
'Pack up my crayons' indeed.
And I for one would never actively try to hurt any forum.
What I will do though is argue vociferously against rude and unenlightened forum members, admins & Mods.
Their esponse when they know they're losing is to delete posts and lock threads. Democracy? Fairness? Reasoned argument? hardly.
The problem, to my mind, is purely with the individuals running the F@H Forum.
They're paying for it though, so I guess they make the rules.
Their attitude has caused the loss of a lot of research for Folding At Home which however you look at it is a damn shame.
Again, thank you taking the time and effort to post here, I wish you well
