I understand your point and I agree that there are a lot of people that can't write a cohesive sentence if their life depended on it but do we pander to those who are illiterate for the sake of possibly losing some work time on a new project while pissing off the people who can read, who do read their email and support this project very strongly?
Isn't that thinking putting the cart before the horse?
One of my teammates mentioned this:
Perhaps a profile that can't be changed should be added.
I don't know if thats feasible or not but it is an option.
I can not stress strongly enough in civil language how pissed off some people are over this. Read between the lines at what I am saying here in the strongest language that I can politely use.
This method is a mistake and must be changed for the good of all.
I love this project and the work it does but I am telling you plain and simple that mutual respect HAS to be involved here.
People with multiple machines that are devoted to one project at WCG will not sit idly by and have to one by one delete unwanted WU from projects they do not want to do.
The bulk of them are not like myself that will take the time to write and try to convince you of the error here.
They will simply take their machines somewhere else.
Courtesy and Respect, those are the foundations on which all partnerships are based.
Thanks for reading.

PS: I started school in 1957 so I do understand your point on education today..

then you will accept the results of an email vote, yes?

Seems to me the issue is quite clear.

On one end we have participants such as the topic starter who have a very strong reasons for selecting certain projects, and therefore do not want to automatically opt-in to new projects

On the other end we have the point that has been made that not having an auto opt-in at all would mean new projects would get a very bad acceptance, as it is very hard to reach all users to move them to manually add the project to their profile: The forum is not read by many users, and even if you would add all other news messages and posts on other teamforums, the coverage is not that well. Email messages have a similar problem.

It seems clear to me that for people who do not want an auto opt-in this ideally should be possible. On the other end we should not close our eyes for the fact that just disabling auto opt-in would probably have a unintended bad effect on project acceptance.

Best solution to me seems to add an option somewhere in the user preferences or in the profile where the user can choose whether to auto opt-in on new projects or not. A per profile settings would be the nicest but I can imagine that it is not possible to add WCG specific settings to the profiles. In that case a user setting (which applies to all profiles)would probably suit the requirements just as well. By default this auto opt-in flag could be set to enabled so by default the behaviour will be the same as now, which is probably fine for the majority of the users. Users who do not like this behavior (such as the topic starter) can then disable the check box so WCG will no longer add new projects to their profiles. Mind you they can still add them manually if they choose so.

If contributors wish to have projects automatically added to their profiles there should be a check box to allow said. This is not a matter for an email vote, it is a matter of courtesy and respect from the project organisers.

As contributors, we are NOT the ignorant "children" of the project. We are the sole suppliers of the very resource the project requires to run. Without us the project does not exist.

I believe one of our fellow crunchers has expressed my sentiment with a recent post in XS forums, and I quote:

'Any crunchers that were with Grid.org will know this is a repeat of what happened there, again they used the opt out instead of opt in.

Now at the end of the day this is my money in rigs and electric and if you`re doing something with it I DID NOT give permission for I would class that as stealing.

Technically also you have put something on my machine without permission. I`m darn sure this is in breach of something.

Who`s to say next we`re not going to be crunching for the military without our express permission ?

Not happy !!! But still at WCG but will NOT crunch rice now on principle.'

DDTUNG

**Edited for inappropriate language** TKH