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Message 1588600 - Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 6:24:30 UTC

Under author if you have of a thread "Banished :ID *.*", I'm taking it that those people have been Banished from the DC Project SETI@Home. Is that right! What or why would you get banished for from hear, such as the forums, and the SETI DC project?

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They are only banished from the forums, they can still crunch.
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Message 1588608 - Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 6:46:26 UTC - in response to Message 1588600.  

Under author if you have of a thread "Banished :ID *.*", I'm taking it that those people have been Banished from the DC Project SETI@Home. Is that right! What or why would you get banished for from hear, such as the forums, and the SETI DC project?

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They are only banished from the forums, they can still crunch.

In addition there is this thread that has a bit more detail.

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Message 1588726 - Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 16:20:08 UTC
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Spud his or her initial question was concerning banishment at Seti@Home, I don't believe a question like that belongs in NC Chris.
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Message 1588755 - Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 17:28:12 UTC - in response to Message 1588648.  

I know Spud1200 is a newbie and doesn't yet understand most of what makes Seti@home tick, but this would have been better posted in Number crunching. We get this time and time again. What is needed is a comprehensive starter pack for new crunchers which they could download, or start up a "Freshers" type thread over in NC.


I used http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php for this in my early days. It is still there.

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Message 1588770 - Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 18:12:54 UTC
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You probably do not see me around here being concerned about Seti@home.

The following is a short note only. I do not attempt to go into the details regarding all the things.

First of all, Seti@home is the attempt of detecting an intelligent signal coming our way from outer space, giving an indication that we are not alone in the Milky Way or the Universe, for that matter.

Therefore Seti@home is a radio-based search. Doing a search means an attempt at making the possible detection of an alien signal.

Radio signals are being transformed into numbers of different types and sizes. For our current search, four different signal types are currently being analyzed and used, namely spikes, gaussians, pulses and triplets.

For all of these four signal types, there is a need for making a "quantification" of the data. You need to be looking at one or more of the signal types from a processed work unit in order to determine whether or not any given numbers being returned were having a possible intelligent origin.

Right now, scientists are unwilling to open up "Pandora's box". They are currently unable to make a distinction between for example a gaussian or a narrowband signal (or an artificially created signal for testing purposes).

The Seti@home "Classic" web-pages has a page relating to the best-known gaussian scores.

http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Scroll down to Signal candidates (new) under Science and you will find the link

http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/candidates.html

Most interesting there perhaps is the link having the name "Comprehensive list of promising Gaussian candidates".

http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/index.html

Yes, dark green background, but you will find better stuff relating to the science of Seti@home on these web-pages.

Unfortunately, this web-page has been put on the shelf. The so-called NitPickr is apparently still under construction and not available to the general public.

Also there have probably not been too many promising candidates for the last four or five years or so.

There were possibly some interesting results around 2008 and 2009, but for now only the gaussian scores may possibly give a clue to the question about whether or not we are alone in space.
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Message 1589513 - Posted: 21 Oct 2014, 1:09:04 UTC

Your account page (on the top bar of the screen) will answer some of your questions. The Cross-project statistics will tell you about all of the projects and the amount of work being done. The task will tell you about your wing men. Wingmen are picked more or less next one in line and their results don't always agree with yours I have found often results aren't returned in time or they don't agree in which case another wingman is assigned until agreement on the results can be found, In my case, I am running stock hardware so my results are error free and it can take a while for my work to be accepted.

As for banished users, I have been on SETI for long enough to see the conversations that resulted in a user being banished. The moderators who banished the user have been more than fair and have warned users they were heading for trouble before they were banished. Banishing a user is done with a good deal of caution and I have respect for the job the moderators have done so far. If you want to argue, you can go to politics were the rules aren't as restrictive but when people are banished, most often it's because they went to far in the politics thread.

When a user is banished, all of their post vanish and the offensive ones are removed. When they return, the remaining post will reappear which sometime makes a thread hard to understand especially if the thread was created by the banished user. I have also seen entires threads be removed if the topic of the thread was off base.

Very few users are banished and I think in the time have been on SETI, I think there have been about half a dozen users that were banished.
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Message 1590031 - Posted: 22 Oct 2014, 7:01:59 UTC

And even Moderators get a post hidden and or a time out. I know first hand:)
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Message 1590083 - Posted: 22 Oct 2014, 9:34:48 UTC - in response to Message 1590051.  

You just can't get the staff these days James :-))

Which is surprising considering all the zeros on the paycheck every Friday.

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Message 1593343 - Posted: 28 Oct 2014, 7:20:11 UTC - in response to Message 1590083.  

You just can't get the staff these days James :-))

Which is surprising considering all the zeros on the paycheck every Friday.

LMAO. O yeah I loved the paycheck:) Lots of Zeroes.
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Message 1593368 - Posted: 28 Oct 2014, 8:02:47 UTC - in response to Message 1593343.  
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You just can't get the staff these days James :-))

Which is surprising considering all the zeros on the paycheck every Friday.

LMAO. O yeah I loved the paycheck:) Lots of Zeroes.



Right :) O yeah I loved the dump :(
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