Thanks for participating in the beta test. And thanks for dropping by to to share your thoughts --
How's it going?
Transition looks like it went well.
kelly, sorry to hear you're departing. let me mention a few things in the hopes of talking you out of it:
{1} the "donate my status" feature (which posts occasional status messages) is "opt-in"; it is "off" by default. when you turned it "on", you should have been shown a form which illustrated how it worked, and also allowed you to set the frequency of these posts.
{2} you can at any time disable this function, by returning to the same page used to activate it (link)
{3} by way of clarification: the "Fan Page" for the app is separate from the app itself. this is quite awkward but it's just how things work at FB. and this is why, for instance, becoming a fan and adding the app are separate actions. you can, if you wish, do one but not the other. conversely, you can resign being a fan without removing the app from your FB account. so I think this is what you've done, which is why the status posts persist. if you want to stop the status posts, please turn that feature "off" via the link above or use the Facebook settings page to remove the app entirely.
...if these "donate my status" posts are your only concern, i hope you'll just stop using that feature, or set it to run less often; but that either way you'll still feel comfortable contributing to the science projects, which are doing great work and really need your help
Just to be clear -- the three projects shown at registration at PTP are "featured projects". there is no requirement to join these. You can join any project listed here at gridrepublic. (just use the "add project" button on the PTP "dashboard" page.)
Having said this, there were a number of reasons why these projects were selected. Key among these was the obligation to do a security review of any featured projects; this is very expensive and resource constraints prohibited doing this for all projects.
Hi Matt! That all makes perfect sense, and sounds perfectly reasonable. But why can't a person just say hi to everyone without having to say they're running a project that they're not participating in. My first note included a poor choice of words., and I apologize for that. I completely understand that this has nothing to do with what I'm actually helping to analyze in BOINC. I'm talking about the invitation I got to submit a Facebook note about what I'm doing. Your set-up won't allow me to do that unless I agree to include a pre-prepared sentence that I'm helping to defeat global warming, or helping to save Africa from Malaria, or some such like that. I'm not running those projects, and don't feel that I should be blocked from participation until I say that I am.
Maybe we both are! This happened when I joined PTP, and it offered to link to my Facebook account, so it happened within your application in Facebook. Here's the link to the page that is doing this:
http://apps.facebook.com/processors/home.php?ref=appd_my_recent&fa=0
I just did get to this by logging into Facebook, then clicking on "Applications" in the left column. The only application I've got there is "Progress Thru Processors". When I click on that, the opening screen says "Hello Michael - Tell everyone what you're doing...", and there's a text box there that I tried to put a short note into. Below that however, is a drop-down menu that says "Select a Project". There are a couple of additional check boxes below that, along with a "Submit" button, and a note that if I press "Submit", I'll be agreeing to the terms and conditions.
The problem I'm running into is that if I try to press "Submit" without selecting a project, it comes back telling me an error has occurred, and that I have to "Select a Project". The "Projects" are just sentence endings that are, I'm guessing, intended to complete the statement I make in the text box; i.e: "while fighting global warming.", etc.
Thanks!
If I understand you correctly. You are speaking about the Flash based status screen on the home page of the PTP application on Facebook where all the participants share their status what they are doing while "choosing one of the three statements that are associated with each of the three featured projects".
Maybe adding a fourth option could be added to facilitate the situations like yours where those who do not participate in the featured projects, but would like to share their status are able to do so. Selections like "while participating in volunteer computing" or "while participating in Progress Thru Processors" would be suitable for this situation.
