Facebook group...

[Justgeo1]

I don't know how often our Facebook admins check the page, but we have A TON of spam on the group and it's not being dealt with. I'd be very happy to be an admin for that group if someone wants to do that, and I'm more than willing to take care of any issues that show up on our group... Let me know if I can help! :)

[Maxwell]

Thank you for volunteering...

To be honest, I have no clue who even has the keys to the FB page. I'm not even on FB, so I know it's not me... :p

[c303a]

I'm not on Facebook either. I've seen too many problems on my grandkids computer to know to stay off of it.

[Maxwell]

I'm not on Facebook either. I've seen too many problems on my grandkids computer to know to stay off of it.
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to follow things and stay up-to-date without Facebook. I'm currently waging the internal debate of "Do I even care?" If the answer to that turns out eventually to be "yes," the only way I can justify that is to do it under a pseudonym and only access Facebook from inside a VM to protect myself as much as possible.

So far, though, the answer to the question has been "not really." =))

[zombie67]

How do we fix this? This is serious.

[Shandia]

Um.......I also would volunteer to be an admin for the Facebook page....if anyone knows where they left the keys. I am on Facebook at least a few times a day. For those wanting to risk the "scrypt has stopped responding" error due to the outside data storage of pics, jpegs, vids and feel comfortable with cutting off all the pages keeping track of one's info, keeping up with the Facebook thing isn't that big of deal. It usually takes care of itself. The SPAM in question is from an account that only occasionally spews shit. It did it last year about this time of the year too. The easiest way would be to make it a private group where one has to do the joys of being selected to join. The way our group face is there, I wouldn't suggest doing it. It's where more than just our team sees what we are doing. I almost want to suggest hitting up F$ to see if he knows who has the keys.

[zombie67]

Yeah, the point of the group is to get folks to join, not make it difficult.

And for the folks who think Facebook is a joke, or where your parents/kids/that-other-generation is, I feel your pain. But the reality is, that is where everyone is, even if they don't want to be.

[dcushing]

I'm not on Facebook either. I've seen too many problems on my grandkids computer to know to stay off of it.

Me to, but not with Grandkids, da wife is the culprit... Always deleting stuff that gets automatically downloaded, while she is looking at pics and typing in chats.... Surprised her computer hasnt totally been reformatted with a clean OS on it... but give it time.

So me stay off facebook.. Ill do skype thank you! better security.

[Shandia]

Contact has been made and he says it will be fixed.

[c303a]

[QUOTE=dcushing So me stay off facebook.. Ill do skype thank you! better security.[/QUOTE]

I use Skype a lot. My wife has relatives in Italy and we spend time talking to them plus I have met people all over the US using other media and we stay in contact. I also have friends that were in the Service with me and we stay in touch using Skype. I like the face-to -face meeting that you get with Skype.

[Justgeo1]

Contact has been made and he says it will be fixed.

Yay!!! That's a good thing!

[cineon_lut]

Contact has been made and he says it will be fixed.

Great thanks!


Vic (mobile)

[Shandia]

Doing a good look, I found the list of admins. The mention of them on the page was right on the money. Knowing Aaron, I shot him a message and got an immediate reply. How long it will take, who knows.

[Shandia]

Actually, this problem brings up a question. There is an ongoing thing with a member on the Facebook page who is having issues gaining member status here. Other than seeing the different admins posting stuff, there really isn't a list for who is in charge of what. When F$ was an active part of the team, there really wasn't a question about who to contact. Maybe there needs to be a master list for admins so basic questions can be sent directly to them.

With the guy in question on Facebook, my questions are being slightly dodged. I've asked for his Boinc user name and hope to get a reply soon. As it is, he states he is not allowed to post on the forum, including the part where new members get full access. It almost makes me wonder if there is a new unknown feature with the site. (I know one must take an active stance on the forums before one can make new post) Then again, it makes me wonder about his status in general. I'll look up his info on DC when I get his user name to verify he is an actual cruncher and one of us. Once I see what is up, it would be nice to be able to forward the info onto the admin in charge of members as well as responding to his request.

There really needs to be an active liaison between the Facebook page and the forums. It just seems to be slightly disconnected at this moment. (members on vacation.....MIA....isn't very helpful at times despite being understandable) Scraping in new members into the forums shouldn't be as difficult as it is. I know the procedures are here for a reason and sometimes team security needs a few hoops to be jumped through. The last thing we really want is members from other teams to be spying on us about......what we're listening to and so forth. :ar! After having my P3DN profile turned down and reported as spam, they will not get any help from me.

[Al]

You can send his info to me, but in most cases they get tentative membership immediately. It's pretty rare that I delete someone right off the bat, unless their email is obvious spam. More than likely he's / she's not following the directions.

[Shandia]

Discussion time! There are a couple of people posting "stories" on the Facebook page. The ones written by Posey are a little entertaining and dealing with aliens somewhat. (It was ALIENS!!!) The one written by Rolando, a little less. i halfway wanted to remove them due to them not pertaining to crunching, scientific study, tech, Boinc, or anything related to the team. I turned a blind eye to them because there are no rules or guidelines about content.....other than the universal unwritten understanding that the site is not to be used as a place to sell garbage--ie spam. On the page, it does have a place for rules and guidelines for people who wish to post can follow. I'm bringing this point up because Carlos did report them. If I wasn't an admin, I would of done the same thing. lol None the less, removing without explanation of said remove seems a little much considering, like I said, there are no rules or guidelines about what can be posted.

Using my better judgement and dictating terms without any consensus from the team would be overstepping one's authority in this case. We as a group need to come up with guidelines about posting so there is no misunderstanding about what is appropriate on that forum. All input is appreciated by anyone here......yes, you too Carlos since you had the nerve to stand up and report that dribble.Once we come to a consensus of what the guidelines are, I'll be more than happy to post them under that tab and then allow a little time for the authors to see it before removing anything. ;-)

[Justgeo1]

In my opinion, posts that are not related to the topic of the page are not acceptable. I've removed the posts and the authors as they did not relate to our page. I feel that if someone needs to post lots of things like that, they can create their own group or page... it's not that hard to do!

We probably should put some guidelines up, but common sense should let folks know that if it's not related to our purpose here, it's not acceptable on our page either!

I know that "common sense" is in short supply these days, but really...

:)

[Shandia]

I totally agree. If it's not related to what we do or our interest in general, it doesn't belong. Had a little chat with Carlos. He suggested we abandon that page and start over. lol Sad to say, doing that will solve nothing. Yes, we need to plainly post the guidelines and rules about posting just so it's clear to everyone.