Mysteron347,
You seem to forget that CAs are not part of the staff, they are WCG members too, who are also ready to give some (much?) of their time in addition to their computer cycles. So it would be fair to leave them out of your debate.

Regarding your decision it was one of the wise ones you could take. Personally I find all project graphics detrimental to the cause, the "lovely" ones as well as the "dirty" ones, because of the processing time they cost. But I would not start a crusade to have them removed from all projects, I simply not start them and give all the cycles they are costing to the really useful processing. Except for a few minutes, occasionally, to see what they look like when a new project is launched or when so many members find them offending.

Thank you for going on crunching with us. Jean.