Posts by Bok

1) Questions and Answers : Pirates@Home Problems : Founder Issues (Message 9074)
Posted 610 days ago by Bok

Thanks Eric.

I think that Captcha must have been added / strengthened in a more recent version of vBulletin and I hadn't noticed at all. I did not used to be there a few years ago. So yes, I'll definitely leave it there now that it's much more difficult for bots to get through. Unless of course they are the type who have seen Attack Ships on Fire off the shoulder of Orion....

Bok

2) Questions and Answers : Pirates@Home Problems : Founder Issues (Message 9072)
Posted 610 days ago by Bok

I remember the Space Family issue very well, in fact one of my Free-DC teams got hijacked at NanoHive (I think) and we did get it back eventually but it was a pain.

It is a difficult one for the project admins, it's one of the areas of BOINC where it's virtually impossible to fully automate and admins have to get involved. I do understand that but what it boils down to is this :

What are each respective 'sides' doing for the team currently and in the recent past?

1. Cruncher Pete and the SETI.USA current admins (and I do vouch that they are who they say, if my word means anything).

They have run the current active forum for the past year and a half, are actively recruiting users to the SETI.USA teams, are out there in the BOINC projects talking up the team and taking part in challenges.

They have foundership in the majority of projects still available (including SETI with their 14000+ users) and are in the process of contacting many of the users with an up to date newsletter and such. They are updating the descriptions for the team at each project they have foundership for to point to the current domain/forum.

2. BlkJack21.

Nothing that I can tell, he mostly refuses to communicate with anyone and gives no reasons at all as to why he won't transfer foundership. Admins and various users have reached out to him over the past year via PM, email etc with little to no response or help. A year or so ago, he did agree with one of the forum admins to transfer the setiusa.net domain over, but this just never happened, forcing the admins to register a new domain instead and start afresh. If he wanted the team to slowly die off or become stagnant he was doing a very good job of it until CP came along and forced a few issues.

There is my 2 cents.

Bok

3) Questions and Answers : Pirates@Home Problems : Founder Issues (Message 9067)
Posted 611 days ago by Bok

It's a spam prevention thing not to be displayed. Unfortunately bots and other motley brigands tend to spam it.

I've updated the controls so it's available now :) We can switch it back off later..

Bok :)

I host the forums for SETI.USA along with the Free-DC forum and the http://stats.free-dc.org site

4) Questions and Answers : Credit : Any reason why Free-DC does not show up in the statsdump?? (Message 2084)
Posted 2950 days ago by Bok

Yet, I can view the stats online here...but they don't show up in the teamid.gz file or the members in the userid.gz file..

Bok

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