David
You came into our team thread a couple of months ago and ran a personal crusade against our team for wanting to switch to BOINC
You will note that not one person who posted in our team thread, agreed with you
However it did not stop you rambling on with another 19 posts on the subject
I politely asked everyone to take it to the chat room, to which you replied by accusing me of kicking you out of our team thread

Which was not the case and you know it

I again politely asked you not to concern yourself with out team website to which you replied

You have made eight more posts since that statement and still continue to give us unsolicited and unwanted advice
What does it take to get our point across to you
Will you continue to harrass us until someone takes the bull by the horns and gets angry with you

I am requesting that Admin lock this thread tomorrow
I propose to start a new one, if our members agree
hopefully we can put this unfortunate incident behind us

This issue is reflecting badly on our team and we just want to be left alone to do some friendly crunching and enjoy some friendly comradie

I fully agree that this thread should be locked down so as no other potential WCG member will be discouraged and not join us in the fight against disease!!!

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In all honesty, I have had enough and no longer see any point to remain. Therefore, effective immediately, I am resigning my membership in this team and ALL teams. My decision is final. Please respect that and do not attempt to change my mind. That is no longer possible.

Spike, please delete my registration from the team forum. I don't believe I had registered for the Gallery.

I have removed all references to MOT of any kind from my signature.

I had hoped after this past weekend that we would all be granted a few days of maturity and civilty - long enough at least for me to dissuade myself from this course of action. Events regarding this team are not the only factor in my decision. As some of you may recall, a couple of months ago , I started a thread in the Teams forum about why should someone bother joining a team. The topic title was not meant negatively. Joining a team has absolutely no impact on how either the UD or BOINC agents crunch WU's nor on the points you receive. No one receives any special benefits or priviledges with respect to WCG by joining a team. The benefit of joining a team is the team itself (emphasis intentional). Any "competition" amongst the WCG teams should be friendly at worst. We are all supposedly working towards the same goal after all. I've taken some time to briefly browse some other team threads and team forums. On some, I've seen pettiness and worse. [Diety] help the WCG if any potential crunchers happen to read thru the Team Forum before deciding to join (or after for that matter).

I didn't really see much in the way of potential for getting existing WCG members to join MOT. The WCG really wouldn't gain anything from that, at least directly. The real potential I felt was in an organized, committed effort to bring in new members to the WCG itself and, hopefully, get some of those to join MOT (the latter being true icing oon the cake). I had been trying to think about and work out a process for contacting various media outlets, primarily small town daily or weekly newspapers, by e-mail. They'd get a brief overview of what the WCG is and how their readers could be a part of it. They would then be directed to our website for additional information thru a link included in the e-mail. That link would take them directly to their own place on our website where additional information would be placed. It would be customised for them and their locale - ready made copy so to speak. That information would explain more about the WCG, how to sign up, how to download the UD or BOINC agent (with guidelines to determine which might be best to run on their computer), information about connecting to the WCG when they only have a dial-up connection, and of course information on our team and how to join us. I hadn't fully worked out all the details in my mind yet and now there is no longer any point. Given the behavior I have seen over the past couple of months, I cannot recommend joining the WCG to others.

Yes, I know you may feel that I am painting with a large brush tarnishing lots of innocent folks. That is not my intent but to some degree, we are all collectively responsible too. We all have our tempers. I know that personally all too well. I've seen real fear in another person's eyes and I never touched them physically. That was just over 28 years ago and while I still get upset and cranky at times, I do not surrender control of my behavior to my emotions. I realized that 28 years ago that I was truly capable of seriously hurting someone and have been determined ever since to not ever permit that. I was tempted this past weekend to notify the WCG admins of what was occurring in this thread and request that they ban the participants (all of them) from these forums completely. However, I knew that if in fact that was truly the best thing to do, it wouldn't hurt to wait a day or two just to ensure that my own emotions were not coloring my attempt to be objective. Afterwards, I seriously considered quitting the WCG altogether and, truth be told, I thought about going back and deleting every single post I have made in any of these forums because I wanted to leave as little evidence as possible of my having ever been here. Of course, I realize that would benefit no one and would lower myself to the level of those who are collectively responsible for my leaving this and any other teams. Hopefully, despite my real fault for being long-winded at times, maybe some of the things I have said in pasts posts have and may continue to be of some small benefit. There are good people participating in the WCG and there are bound to be some good teams out there. I can't help but suspect that they are more likely the smaller ones though.

Graham, you are extremely artistic and undeniably talented. You are also extremely committed to the WCG and this team. I have great respect for both and your efforts for the team in the last couple of months. You have said to me that you have a short fuse. Please consider that possibility that it is even shorter that you think. The outbursts that have occurred in this forum have highly muted the effectiveness of your message. I suspect you have a saying on your side of the pond quite similar to one we have here - One "Oh crud!!" equals 10,000 at-a-boys (you all know what I mean but I do want to keep this child-friendly).

In all fairness, while I was not a part of this team during the rather devisive events of January, I have read back thru our past threads as well as the forums of other teams. What I saw was most discouraging to say the least. Clearly, those events have left too much animosity among some WCG members. I cannot help but suspect that some individuals purposely try to bait Graham. Who did what does not matter. What matters to any one of us is our own behavior. Pettiness, devisiness, personal attacks, crudeness and a lack of civility are best meet with silence (not to mention a report to the WCG admins). I have to fault myself for not having availed myself of that red button. I had hoped that we'd all settle down and put things behind us. I was clearly wrong.

Yes, I realize that those who are the source of recent problems and events are a very small number compared to the WCG population as a whole. However, a significant portion of the WCG population has clearly chosen not to get involved with the teams here. Of those who have, it would seem that many are no longer active. Of those who are still active, even fewer are active in the team threads here or the team forums that some teams have. The specific numbers are not the point. The point is that the actions and deeds of those who ARE active here take on much greater visibility and impact. To the extent that our actions and behavior here are not positive, we could quite literally be eventually costing some people their lives. I can't help but suspect that the forums here are like many forums elsewhere - there are far more "lurkers" that participants. To some degree, we may well be directly responsible for some portion of the inactive members. We have no way of knowing what impact that could have. We could well have delayed the results of the WCG's projects by enough that, for some of those who participate as a way to do what that can to give a little bit more hope to their loved ones who are suffering from some disease, their efforts may now well be in vain.

I will continue to participate in the WCG as an individual. My decision is final. I will not change it. I do not think of myself as better than others here but I cannot condone what has and continues to occur here. I am unable to associate myself with that any more.

Good night, good bye, and for those who choose to continue to remain, a most emphatic good luck.

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Thank you Sir!
You summed up my feelings in five lines, as opposed to me typing a full page to get the point across