Interesting discussions, but what I find most humorous are the people who describe their months long effort to make themselves unwelcome at P@H and then can't understand why they are no longer welcome there
My posts on the forum were not to make me unwelcome, but to help the project (and BOINC) to get rid of the evil hacker W***.
The project admin may be right in a narrow, clerical, legalistic way, but that's not the point here, that's far too little as a benchmark for worthyness, that's a sine qua non, but far from enough. A project that expects volunteer donators of computational power has to behave far more community friendly to meet the benchmark "worthy project".
Weeks of polite hints towards the perpetrator and the proper dealing with him/her only lead to a rude "I don't care about hackers, STFU!" by the project admin. He alone started this f***up with his inaction towards criminals and rude behaviour towards us helpful volunteers. He 's the one to blame for it, the helpful community only became obstinate after they were slapped in the face by Mr. Braun.
Again, Mr. Braun may be correct in a plain, legalistic, way, I can be rude in my house as well. But If I invite people to help me decorate my house, and suddenly throw them out without reason, I must not be suprised if they don't behave polite towards me.
That's what he has done. He invited us to help Predictor, we did just that, we made him aware of the criminal hacker W***, and all he did was slap us in the face and ban us for our help, no reason given to anyone.
I will continue to post about this issues, and as long as he is in an official position @Predictor, as the project admin, his actions are officially those of the project, and thus the whole project, not only Mr. Braun, has the "unworthy" tag on it's surface.
I will speak out against unworthy projects, like Shoft was in the past, and unfortunately Predictor is now. I hope they change their attitude against their volunteers to one of cooperation instead of confrontation, but it's not the first time they behaved badly. They were as well one of the main reasons for Paul D. Buck to leave the community, one of the finest members the community ever had, the creator of the unofficial Wiki.
Once for clearance the timeline of the events again:
- Trojan was discovered in begin Feb. 2007 in Italy by volunteers
- Projects were made aware by Berkeley afterwards (how exactly is disputed)
- CPDN published their actions on 23. feb.
- All affected project were made aware on the same day in their fora by me
- All projects but Predictor acted in the following days/weeks
- Predictor refused to act, just wanted the discussion to stop and keep W***
- Donators didn't like this and raised the alarm level
- Predictor behaved extreme rude towards it's voluteers, with censorship, bans, defamations
- Predictor finally had to accept the reality and act against W***, but never admitted it's foults
- Volunteers wanted to discuss this behavioural issues on the proper forum and were once again treated with censorship, bans, defamations
- Some even got their credit stolen by the admin
No explanation was given 'til now for all this actions by Predictor/Mr. Braun. He behaves like a dictator, he gets publicity like a dictator. He get's what he asked for.
Grüße vom Sänger