Okay, now I'm gonna whine

I look forward to seeing a green star next to this mans name!

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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

Green stars occur with donations directly to Seti@home. I'm not sure that donating towards hardware actually gets you a star.

From Slavac's feb 29 2012 post

I apologize. Sadly it's out of my or Uli's hands at this point and is up to the SETI guys for implementation.

Come to St. Louis and I'll buy you a compensatory beer to say sorry.




Im betting the Guys just forgot all about it, What with fixing all the problems they have had to deal with. Maybe a little bird could shout a whisper in some ones ear?
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Donations via the GPUUP web site do seem to have a more direct effect on getting things done. Targeted hardware is procured very quickly, but the green star awarding rely's on passing the information manually, which can fall through the cracks. Althoug it shouldn't be necessary, you could donate to Seti the old fashioned way, perhaps $10, and a star will show up within a few minutes. That way you can have the direct impact by advancing Seti through GPUUG, and still get the green star.

Steve
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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

We shouldn't have to have these messages. There is enough negative vibes about the project as it is without this. Whomsoever is responsible, get off yer butt and do something about it.

Nuff said.

Okay this is the final straw. The green star awards are out of our hands once we submit them to seti. Once there I swear they fall into narnia.

I've gotten threatening emails, threats of legal action and so on and so forth over someone's green stars.

Once I get back from Texas we will no longer be awarding green stars on the seti website for donations. We will come up with an alternative at that time that doesn't involve factors out of our control. Previous donors to the organization will still receive their green stars...whenever seti implements them.

This will likely cost us donors in the end but as this is a very small organization with a small staff of volunteers, I feel our time is better spent on other avenues of fundraising. We raise zero dollars for seti in spending hours drafting an Excel sheet that may never get implemented.

In the future if we are able to get the automatic process enacted, we will resume green star awards.

Apologies for any typos or nonsensical gibberish, I'm typing from my cell on the way to the services.
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Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. -
brad@gpuug.org

Oh no worries at all N9JFE

My gripe is that once we submit the numbers into SETI it's out of our control. We have no say when the stars are awarded, no time table, nothing. Here recently it seems they're sent into a black hole.

It sucks for us because our donors were promised A, complain when they don't get A (as they have a right to do so), and there's nothing the GPU Users Group can do to make sure they get A. This causes grief for our donors as well as our staff (namely me) and takes away from the real goal of kicking the money tree for SETI.

As such I think we're going to depart from awarding green stars until we can get either an automated system enacted or a way so that I can manually implement them.

I think the alternative will be our own banner system showing what the donors contributed towards and the level of their donation. That way we can automatically award our donors, others on the forum can see they're a contributor and more importantly the awards system is entirely within our power to dole out and if a donor doesn't get their banner, we can immediately rectify the situation.
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Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. -
brad@gpuug.org

Easy there, Slavac.

Breath.

Relax.

Buddy.

It will work itself out. Just catch your breath.
Really.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

I think the alternative will be our own banner system showing what the donors contributed towards and the level of their donation. That way we can automatically award our donors, others on the forum can see they're a contributor and more importantly the awards system is entirely within our power to dole out and if a donor doesn't get their banner, we can immediately rectify the situation.

I'm just surprised that control of the green stars cannot be granted to a trusting community/project member. I almost laugh when I think that a project scientist has to make it happen....

[even wordpress sites could allow this amazing feat]

Surely they must be able to provide modify privileges to the appropriate data and a trusting person....

[To me this looks as simple as adding a tiny .gif to the tail of a username]
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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

Easy there, Slavac.

Breath.

Relax.

Buddy.

It will work itself out. Just catch your breath.
Really.