Not until today. You've been here for 2 years, and your first post says you're going away. Oh, by the way, welcome to WCG.

I refer you to my previous post above


I haven't defended at all what he wrote, only noting that the last post he wrote before being banned was a closing peace message in Arabic which would appear to have been completely misunderstood by WCG as they then instigated the ban.

As I have said repeatedly now, I feel that this could have been handled much differently with a far better outcome than this.


I really don't think this is worthy of comment.

Ask him how many userids he used to get that many and more. The junkers with no content or messages not directly concerned with his situation were probably not shared with you.

Fun or not, we're not in a good mood today. Give yourself a name you can spell. Space??? Sorry your workunits are gone.

Dave, I have no reason to lie I received nothing and I never delete a single mail ( bar spam). Please Dave ask to see my continued communications via help/contact and by email to wcg if you do not believe me they all state the same. I was told nothing.

Via email examples

7th July

Dear Sir,
Recently I (carl.h) have been made invisible on the forum and although this is not a ban none of my posts can be seen. This is in contradiction of your rules :-

Any offensive or inappropriate forum post may be edited, locked, or removed at the sole discretion of World Community Grid. When World Community Grid takes such action, comments as to why the action was taken will be provided on the affected forum post within a reasonable time period. A reasonable time period is defined as being within 24 hours, but could be as long as 72 hours on weekends or holidays.
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The one and only post sent by WCG was this :-

Dear carl.h, Your recent posts in the World Community Grid forums are in violation of the forum rules. Please refrain from making these type of posts in the World Community grid forums. We suggest that you employ the common courtesy mention here: http://www.teddies.be/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=44 Thanks.
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World Community Grid


I asked for evidence of the post`s that caused offence or a pointer to them. This was not forthcoming. I feel not only that I have been treated badly but that WCG have acted outside their own rules. I ask that my nick carl.h be reinstated to a full member that can be read and seen as all others are. Should this not be put into practice I am willing to escalate this to a higher
level.

Thankyou
Yours Sincerely

Carl.h
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9th July

Dear Sir,
I have still to receive from you any communication officially stating my position, which I asked for and also within in the rules of the forum I am entitled to. I was told via the forum this would be forthcoming.

Please could you state my position clearly via email as I still have entry to the forum and am still carrying out work on my machines for WCG. If as according to the rules and software licence I am banned please state and I will delete all software from my machines as per the Software Licence agreement.

I am Captain of the Teddies team and as such find it difficult to communicate via the forum and put a team view. My recent post`s which I thought were invisible appear not to be (to staff) and I have been accused of spamming, this was entirely due to none communication from WCG forum staff. On the subject of multiple membership again this was due to non communication of WCG staff.

I have asked numerous times for clarification of the situation but as yet, after more than a week, have yet to receive any communication.

Yours Sincerely

carl.h
Member WCG

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10th July

Dear Sir,
The following read only post that you linked to say`s nothing of my predicament, nor any decision as to my membership of WCG . I ask for clarification asap. If there is a problem with English I am willing to get it translated. Thankyou ;-)

"quote"
This past weekend World Community Grid took the unusual action of temporarily changing some of the forums to read-only. Before we talk about that, let's review why World Community Grid exists and why there are forums.

There are many challenges in our society some of these challenges include diseases, hunger and climate. There are many research organizations that have ideas that can help solve some of these issues, but they do not have access to sufficient computing power to fully investigate their potential solutions. At the same time, most of the world’s personal computers use only a tiny fraction of their available computing power. World Community Grid exists to allow the owners of those personal computers to donate their computing power to researchers who are attempting to solve problems facing humanity. In the nearly three years since we launched we have had hundreds of thousands of members donate over 100,000 years of computing time. This is a tremendous accomplishment and together we have successfully advanced the research significantly. We are truly grateful for the member’s donations of their computers.

As part of the World Community Grid website, we have set up forums for use by the members in the following way:
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1) To allow members to seek help or report problems with the grid agents or with the website
2) To discuss, ask questions and learn more about the science projects that are underway and the results of those projects
3) To promote a positive community atmosphere about the accomplishments that we can all achieve when we come together

To ensure that the forums are used for their intended purpose, certain rules have been established. These rules may be viewed on the website research page by selecting “Rules” from the menu under the upper navigtation bar. We take these rules seriously.

We understand that members will have disagreements with each other over different issues or different visions of what the world is or should be. This is normal in any group situation. However, these forums do not exist for protracted discussions and debates on these issues. There are many, many forums elsewhere on the internet that exist and encourage these types of discussions.

Due to a disruptive situation that occurred this past week, we decided to give the forum a “rest” and made several forums “read only” so that the support staff could enjoy the weekend. We apologize to our loyal World Community Grid members for this disruption of service. Our technical staff is dedicated to providing a safe and friendly environment for members to contribute their unused computer cycles to help humanity. We will continue to strive to provide an environment that is rewarding to all of the World Community Grid members.

We will be allowing members to post in the “read only” forums shortly but request that members respect the goals of these forums and focus on the goals of World Community Grid’s Community to further research that helps humanity" Unquote

----- Original Message -----
From: worldcommunitygrid
To: Carl
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Forum ban/invisibility of carl.h



We have posted our comments here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=15176

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World Community Grid BB


"Carl" <carl@ccs-rochford.co.uk>
07/07/2007 01:30 AM
To worldcommunitygrid/Armonk/IBM@IBMUS
cc
Subject Forum ban/invisibility of carl.h







Dear Sir,
Recently I (carl.h) have been made invisible on the forum and although this is not a ban none of my posts can be seen. This is in contradiction of your rules :-

Any offensive or inappropriate forum post may be edited, locked, or removed at the sole discretion of World Community Grid. When World Community Grid takes such action, comments as to why the action was taken will be provided on the affected forum post within a reasonable time period. A reasonable time period is defined as being within 24 hours, but could be as long as 72 hours on weekends or holidays.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The one and only post sent by WCG was this :-

Dear carl.h, Your recent posts in the World Community Grid forums are in violation of the forum rules. Please refrain from making these type of posts in the World Community grid forums. We suggest that you employ the common courtesy mention here: http://www.teddies.be/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=44 Thanks.
---------------------------------------------------------
World Community Grid


I asked for evidence of the post`s that caused offence or a pointer to them. This was not forthcoming. I feel not only that I have been treated badly but that WCG have acted outside their own rules. I ask that my nick carl.h be reinstated to a full member that can be read and seen as all others are. Should this not be put into practice I am willing to escalate this to a higher
level.

Thankyou
Yours Sincerely

Carl.h