Early rising for me as well.

Not sure I am really here, though?

GoodMorningAfternoonNight...I am on vacation and have not seen any of you lately...I have avoided the on-line world for the past few days...just waking and dreaming...What have you been up to?

Another thought...........

I know that the Project Admins are busy & short handed.

However, is it possible for them to produce a quarterly newsletter(web page) showing the following: -

Donations to date & what the funds have been allocated to?
Project personnel - Their thoughts, ideas & which ones have borne fruit, also possibly, the ones that failed & as to why?


I believe that they have had to spend a considerable time to apply for grants etc.

This newsletter would only have to be produced 4 times a year, which should not take up to much time.

It would give countless users a place to see what is being done & how, as well as showing a more human face to the project. This I feel, would take a lot of strain off the project as well as the forum.

Thats a good idea, I wonder if this would be something that the admin folks could use in the Help Wanted threads, and see if someone wants to do the work on it for them, so they can focus on keeping the project running.

They could also put whatever they wanted on it to keep the crunchers posted. What I suggested was just an idea. Unfortunately, even though I have built my own network & server, at the moment, I am quite clueless about setting up web pages. With close to 5tb on my server, I would be only too happy to host it, if somebody put it all together.

Kinda like the Seti admins, eh?

Nor I...LOL.....and I have surely proven otherwise on at least one occasion....
I am a timid soul most of the times......but don't get my dander up.....LOL.
We all have a bad day now and again.......
Let this change work it's way out.....I have offered to give up my mod tag willingly under this change....it does not diminish me nor my credibility as far as I am concerned, any more than I thought the mod tag gave me greater credibility......maybe more responsibility, but it made me no better than anybody else......and if the truth be told, I used the powers granted to me very seldom......

So be on your best behaviour if you want to avoid being singled out........

Would you care to expand upon that last point you made ?

I don't think it needs much clarification......
If someone is misbehaving in the learning stages of some of the newbies, they will no doubt tag that person as someone to keep an eye on.......
So be on your best behaviour.....

hmmm..and there was me thinking that something was finally going to be done about bias mods who abuse their position to victimise people they don't like for personal reasons.

I guess I am outta here if nothing is going to actually change but the names.

Won't know till the curtain rises.
Stick around.....see what shakes out.

I will not be the same old schtick, I am certain of that....

I only meant to say that if a few lurking in the background think that this change will give them carte blanch to behave badly, it ain't gonna happen...trust me on this.....

You have nothing to worry about if your recent demeanor holds up....

So be on your best behaviour if you want to avoid being singled out........

Would you care to expand upon that last point you made ?

I don't think it needs much clarification......
If someone is misbehaving in the learning stages of some of the newbies, they will no doubt tag that person as someone to keep an eye on.......
So be on your best behaviour.....

And who knows......some new mods may be ready to cut their teeth on a few around here......so don't y'all think it's gonna be a free-for-all.......

It had better not be Mark.......

Good morning Mark, good morning Es,...lurkers!!!

LOL....no.....I only come out from under the bed to check on the crunchers and feed the kitties......
Which is pretty hard, considering that I have a water bed.......not easy to slide under the mattress........

In the next year or so I am hoping to move to Vancouver..and my sister is thinking of moving to San Diego..so I shall make a point of dropping into Berkeley should I decide to drive down to visit her. I know Eric would be thrilled.

LOL.......Oh, to be a bug on the wall for THAT conversation.......

Wow, 9 hours and no posts. Gee, this place is dead.

Hold onto your hat! :]]

Big changes have just started in Cafe Seti, and you'll be seeing a lot more people in here than you have for quite a while, Jeremy.

Hopefully they all behave as gentlemen and ladies.......LOL.

I'm optimistic. :]] We've all gotten to understand each other better over the last year and a half, I think.

One can only hope........
I'm one of those silly optimists that like to look at things through kitty-colored glasses.....

Ummm.....if, like Sirius suggested....they were to go with a 1 year term....then we would be completely stuck with a terrible mod for that six months.

Modding is simple, actually. Most people just can't seem to figure it out. All it takes is a bit of diplomacy, and a willingness to talk to a person who has a problem with an action you took.

When I did the job, it always amazed me how easy it was to avoid having to actually delete ( or " mod " ) much of anything. A well placed word here and there, a message to a user who may ( because of a post ) have something modded due to language or rules violation(s), was almost always all it took to have the problem corrected.

People either have the ability to do that kind of thing, or they don't.