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 Post subject: Collatz@home and the (in)famous buttom
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:34 am 
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Hi guys !
May be some of you have seen that, but when you attach your Boinc Manager to Collatz@home, a new buttom appear "Join Susa".

I think this kind of action can harm to the neutrality of the BOINC Manager.
In my view, the purpose of BM is to promote project, not a team !

But I'm also agree that Collatz' admin have done a great job, and I'm thankfully to them for that. So a bit of ads is not a bad thing.

Actually, I'm agree on the content but not on the form.... BM should be out of this.

What do you think ?

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 Post subject: Re: Collatz@home and the (in)famous buttom
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I think attaching to this project is your own decision in the first place and we all are able to make up our minds about being in a team or not.

In fact, I doubt they had any more members because of that button.

I agree on what you mean, that the BM should be neutral and everything, but still, I don't think this ad may be any successful anyway.

Beside... Susa? Sounds bad to me, wouldn't join it! ;-)

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 Post subject: Re: Collatz@home and the (in)famous buttom
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Agreed
I don't think neither this buttom have done something for their team (Or maybe so few) anyway, this is not the issue, I would rather prefer crunching a couple of days for them to say thanks, or give money, etc...than seeing BM as a support for ads...

But maybe it is not as a big deal as I'm seeing it... :p

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 Post subject: Re: Collatz@home and the (in)famous buttom
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Personally, I'm not a big fan of it either...

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 Post subject: Re: Collatz@home and the (in)famous buttom
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Button!?
What button... Oh...

Just goes to show how much attention i pay to BOINC Manager's sidebar, eh!

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I never even seen it there, should pay more attn.

Now it says join team USA, maybe they cycle thru the teams to get them some exposure??? My best guess.


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