happy birthday !

Happy Birthday Bill and Brewers!!

Thanks to most of you who replied. I understand the sentiments that have been expressed, and I understand we have a troll amongst us, and how difficult it is when people can just assume new identities when they are banned. But I want those of you who matter to understand that I will not be giving up my crunching for the good of mankind; if I happen to leave the WCG altogether, it will be so that I can move to some other (equally?) beneficial project such as folding@home, but I can assure you that my spare power will not be wasted. On the other hand, I've spent a lot of time and effort promoting the WCG, and using it as an example in my Project 2plus2is4, so I'd hate to have to rework all of that, so I might just leave the forums ... at least for awhile until the juvenile behavior stops. It's not that I'm running away and hiding, and I sure don't want to let some low-life win, but spending time in the forums is not a necessity, and if it isn't pleasant or productive, why do so?

Let me guess: wallsb-k = fornot. HEY, CLOWN, GET A LIFE! Why don't you do something constructive and worthwhile? I can't imagine having a life that is so small, unimportant, and fruitless, that I'd need to get my kicks by pestering and annoying other people at the risk of damaging something as important as the work that we do here. I guess it's the same perverted mentality of people who write viruses to deliberately destroy without regard to who or what they damage. Anyway, it's a shame that a few folks ruin it for the majority; I can nail them in court when they are caught, but I can't do much about it here. So how can we fix this? If nelsoc's job (?) is to eventually read every post so that he can edit profanity, than I suggest that WCG adopt a rule of moderating all posts -- at least from new members. At any rate, I'm not going to feed the troll, so regardless of what is posted from him/her from this point forward, I won't be responding. Good luck to everyone. I sure wish that I could have seen my team make it to the Top-100 before leaving, but we are now actually losing ground.

Cheers, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate the holiday.

Hi, phicksus. We'll see how things develop, but I had an idea that I wanted to pass on that, if it could be implemented, would make life here a lot more tolerable for all of us. I don't know much about programming and how the scripts for these forums work, but it would be tremendous if it would be possible for any member to choose to easily "filter" another poster by name, such as by simply clicking on an icon similar to the red-faced icon that appears below each post for the purpose of reporting threats. Then when I read the first post from 'foreskin' or whatever his/her name was, I could have 'zapped' the idiot and then I never would have seen his/her other offensive remarks. I'm sure many would be grateful for the ability to filter me, too.

Cheers.