Hey - who's still around?

[Otis11]

I'm still hanging around, but rarely come back to the forum (Life's gotten very busy recently... it's quite unfortunate - I liked my free time). Still have my old GTX 460 cranking away 24/7 in it's dedicated rig. Looking forward to getting a nicer GPU, but currently don't have the money, and I prioritize crazy stuff like food and bills
(no joke, little poor at the money, but hopefully grad school with fix that )

Anyway - still crunching away on my piddly little machine. Slow and steady...

And Josh1980 - it's too bad to hear you're not stickin around. You'll be missed. (Please check back in with us here every once in a while... or on the WCG page! You still have friends here)

[josh1980]

And Josh1980 - it's too bad to hear you're not stickin around. You'll be missed. (Please check back in with us here every once in a while... or on the WCG page! You still have friends here)

Hehe. I drop by once in a while when I'm really really really bored, but after the way things went with my random banning and never could get an explanation I really didn't feel like I wanted to continue to participate in a forum that will ban people with no warning, explanation, etc. I remember you, and I remember we used to have some great conversations between quite a few people that practically lived on the forums back in 2010 and 2011. But alas, once I got banned it was like "wth am I doing to be treated like this". Then after the ban ended I emailed 2 or 3 of the moderators trying to figure out why happened and I got no replies. Nobody answered and when I asked someone else in the forum who had been banned before and had like 2k posts they said "yeah... get used to it.. you'll get banned and they'll delete your PMs asking why etc." I was just shocked that I was such an active member and then *boom*.. banned for 30 days or whatever it was with no explanation or anything. If someone with over 700 posts gets treated like that I just didn't feel particularly "desired" by the forum, so I left.

My problem was that if I got banned for "something" who's to say I won't get banned for doing it again. I don't post things that are inappropriate or anything that I'd consider questionable so I've really been confused. On my new forum I have over 5k posts and quite happy there. I won't get banned since I'm a moderator there. My name there isn't josh1980 so you definitely won't find me from my username.

It does look like this forum has gone way downhill in activity though. Maybe too many people have been burned and now the forum will suffer a long and slow death. Too bad really. After the ban (and especially when I was give the silent treatment when I asked why) I just lost motivation to be here. I have some great memories of staying up until midnight discussing various options for crunching and helping others setup their crunchers.