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DrJinglesMD
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We are here for the science, the feeling of doing good while doing hardly anything, and for some the points. Ahh yes the points!
It's great to have a system where people can compete with each other while doing something good for the greater population. Some people however have taken this too far, way too far. I have been folding for the Overclock.net team (Go! #37726) for over a year. I have spend thousands on hardware to further this project and to gain a little satisfaction to see my points go up. The introduction of HPCS (Hewlett Packard - Cloud Services) among folders was a huge success. People signed up for a free boost in points, while agreeing to a few simple terms. One of those was that you may only create accounts for yourself under your identity. This is where people became greedy creating over 100 instances of these servers.
(http://www.overclock.net/t/1207603/so-is-this-going-overboard)
In the ToS (http://hpcloud.com/legal_docs) HP does not specifically state in clear terms that you may only have one account. They however do state in the welcome email that you may not put full production load on the testing servers. Again there isn't really a problem here as they welcomed folders and let use their own systems for what we love. My good friend went to HP support to see if we could get a better idea of the ToS in laymens terms. On Post #34 and #38 in the Overclock.net folding section the tech clearly states that in his opinion it is "an abuse of the program. Especially if these people are misleading us by giving a false intended use case."
You are probobly thinking "why is this nut case reporting his own team?!" I'm not one of those people who say "I'm not in it for the points", the points show how hard I've worked on my machines, the time invested in setting them up, and the time it took for all those projects to work and upload. It gives the folder a sense of gratification, a sense of a job well done. When people on your team like Extreme Newbie (Picture), _s3v3n_ (Picture), BWG who is a Staff member (Picture), and finally zodac (Picture) he is our team leader. Someone who should be leading by example not someone who is abusing an already free system.
This really needs to stop, this is unethical, and unfair. I know other teams are doing it but my team should act better. I've asked on our own forums to put a stop to it but they don't. Something needs to be done, show them that this will not be tolerated.
P.S. Just as proof, My Profile on OCN, my folding stats, and my stanford page.
All the links with the word Picture in them are pictures I've uploaded as proof of the posts by the users in case they get deleted from Overclock.net
Thanks for listening and sorry for the long post
It's great to have a system where people can compete with each other while doing something good for the greater population. Some people however have taken this too far, way too far. I have been folding for the Overclock.net team (Go! #37726) for over a year. I have spend thousands on hardware to further this project and to gain a little satisfaction to see my points go up. The introduction of HPCS (Hewlett Packard - Cloud Services) among folders was a huge success. People signed up for a free boost in points, while agreeing to a few simple terms. One of those was that you may only create accounts for yourself under your identity. This is where people became greedy creating over 100 instances of these servers.
(http://www.overclock.net/t/1207603/so-is-this-going-overboard)
In the ToS (http://hpcloud.com/legal_docs) HP does not specifically state in clear terms that you may only have one account. They however do state in the welcome email that you may not put full production load on the testing servers. Again there isn't really a problem here as they welcomed folders and let use their own systems for what we love. My good friend went to HP support to see if we could get a better idea of the ToS in laymens terms. On Post #34 and #38 in the Overclock.net folding section the tech clearly states that in his opinion it is "an abuse of the program. Especially if these people are misleading us by giving a false intended use case."
You are probobly thinking "why is this nut case reporting his own team?!" I'm not one of those people who say "I'm not in it for the points", the points show how hard I've worked on my machines, the time invested in setting them up, and the time it took for all those projects to work and upload. It gives the folder a sense of gratification, a sense of a job well done. When people on your team like Extreme Newbie (Picture), _s3v3n_ (Picture), BWG who is a Staff member (Picture), and finally zodac (Picture) he is our team leader. Someone who should be leading by example not someone who is abusing an already free system.
This really needs to stop, this is unethical, and unfair. I know other teams are doing it but my team should act better. I've asked on our own forums to put a stop to it but they don't. Something needs to be done, show them that this will not be tolerated.
P.S. Just as proof, My Profile on OCN, my folding stats, and my stanford page.
All the links with the word Picture in them are pictures I've uploaded as proof of the posts by the users in case they get deleted from Overclock.net
Thanks for listening and sorry for the long post
