Dear phicksus. The OP poster has been with WCG since 2004 and contributed 3 years of crunching, so don't be quick to make judgement of the intends, in his first post to the forum.

Thanks for contributing.

vaio,

There's no results returned to WCC because I began to fold for Stanford folding at home.

You're right about everything except the CA's being able to delete a post - sysadmin has to do that and apparently they are preoccupied with new project roll outs.

Someone who no longer contributes to WCG gets the benefit of the doubt but active members who criticize the post get skewered.

The best thing to do is remember that the CA's are just other users and their opinion isn't worth any more or less than yours or mine.

I moderated a message board for a distributed computing project and know how difficult it is. The project director was the administrator of the message board and he was there often during his long days and nights. I could delete or lock a topic. I learned the hard way that censoring or deleting created problems. Locking a topic gave everyone in the community time to read the posts and the posters had to live with their statements. If posts or words were removed, then people could deny they ever said something.

I often deleted topics with objectionable images or which directed readers to porn, to advertising (usually drugs or "services"), and even to malicious sites. I saved the posts on my computer as evidence, advised the administrator by personal mail (something we need), and he banned and removed the person or bot from the list of members.

Community Advisors should have authority commensurate with their implied responsibilities. Until then, they should quit acting as moderators. As presently defined in the Rules,