Who is behind this?

I am very uncomfortable with anyone paying people to vote, let alone in a particular way.

I am very uncomfortable with any random crowd determining what is 'worthy' science and what is not. Worthiness is purely subjective and a useless criteria.

We need some very clearly delineated guidelines agreed in advance by the community about what can and cannot be whitelisted and why. The criteria need to be objective enough that > 90% of cases require no debate and only a few corner cases need to be voted upon.

Shall we tie moo-wrapper to a chair and throw it into the water? If it sinks and moo drowns, we'll know it was innocent. If it floats, we know moo is a witch and we can burn it instead. This practice has worked in the past, so I'm confident it will work in this case too.

By my personal criteria, moo should be delisted, but not via a witch hunt. I am happy for there to be inefficiencies in our whitelist while we have inefficiencies in our processes.

Here are my criteria:
1) the project produces output that is useful input to a scientific, historical or cultural process;
2) riddle solving projects must contribute to progressing hard math fields of inquiry or serve some historical/cultural research purpose, e.g. enigma
3) unless a project is commercially sponsored, i.e. paid for crunching, all whitelisted projects must be non-commercial and/or pure research

This would be cool if it was unbiased, however you're pushing your own political agenda as if you're summoning your own personal army of voters. 

ETA till the 'grc-lib-front' gets declared a cyber terrorist organization? haha

In all seriousness, I am somewhat in favour of this project's removal. A more refined/strict whitelist could only have 15 projects on it..

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Many have expressed their doubts about our subsidy distribution. Some have even raised suspicions regarding a scam. 

We have therefore decided to push the first distribution date closer, to alleviate your doubts. As of this writing the fund address has accumulated a total of 171.51 GRC. These (and incoming contributions) shall be distributed to the addresses of the workers matching the aforementioned criteria on 23.01.2018 Tuesday 20:00 GMT

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upvoted for the fun factor :-D

Buy some coins and make your own vote. Do not understand why people would send coins when they could make there own vote.

If you can´t buy try the faucets.

Because you are afraid of the guys with the money that influences a vote with said fortune  you are becoming  THE guys with the money that try to influence the vote with other peoples money?

I am leaning towards removing the project in it's current form. I wish I was a whale, but I am not. In this case actually in my estimation most whales won't be in favor of keeping it anyways, so chances are the "rigged system" will rig it in your favour. Liberation front my asscheecks. Is this satire? Maybe this is a scam? 
It's a fun read -I admit that-, but when it comes to substance it is lacking. As far as I understand it so far: Removing stake in the project that is the Gridcoin currency would mean the ability to create almost endless numbers of 'fake' wallets. As you can see the system is rigged by design and that is a good thing. 

I also believe you are not really grasping the fact that the biggest wallets probably won't vote at all (foundation) -if I am wrong PLEASE enlighten me. 

Arguments should win over money and what you are trying to do is either a scam or really poor taste.    

Bella ciao!


P.S.: Funny that I am on your side when it comes to this decision though.

feels like this was made by a whale

This post is hilarious.

is anybody savvy with the situation going on in Venezuala? this is basically a mirror image of it.

acting as though you're fighting against the power, when this move is very much coming from the power structure, and only serves to hurt lower end GPU users (when you say you're here for the small guys)... as well as cause a schism in the community regarding whether or not we decide the worthiness of a BOINC project. i've never understood that to be Gridcoin's intent.

headhunting BOINC projects, and paying people (????????) to vote a certain way is appalling. what the actual fuck is this, man? :(

Instead of joining this initiative you can simply just vote with your wallet. It's a builtin part of Gridcoin and has nothing to do with power structures or retaliations. Or did the power structures and retaliations vote yes on Moo to begin with?

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It has for me somewhat of an engineering/mathematical/security value.

Is boinc just purely science? no other field?

I up-voted this post for the language/literature of motivational speech. I second this article and encourage you to vote, but vote whatever you want.

However I do not support the Fund and paying voters for their answer. Please think twice before sending contributions to that address.

if this is not a scam, then imho it is worthwhile initiative. i voted to remove moo and will hate it if some big player comes to wipe 100s of us with the back of his hand. i will consider contributing to the fund if the result gets too close to call. let's hope it's not a scam.