This sucks that this forum too has degenerated (it degenerated long ago) to the point of having to put on asbestos suits....
/me joins in the new attire
Anyhow, people have, do, and will run what they want. If people ask for a few extra people to switch, some people (like you 'n me) invariably will.
The point is, the DPC were small. They are now VERY large. This is, in part, due to mass hyping on the front page (or, so I'm told, I don't check out their main site often). If Anand pimped distributed computing, two things would happen. We'd get a massive influx of members every time he pimped it. Two, we'd have a royal mess on our hands with over-eager guys willing to overdo it (meaning, it'd be a mess, even more so than now, to keep people "in-line" about not flaming other teams, etc). Of course, fresh minds and new people always help invigorate the team, so that's a good thing in a sense (even besides the added horse power).
I just don't think we should concentrate in one thing. I mean, seriously, it gets boring. We're still kicking the snot out of them in S@H, I'm not sure where we stand in Gamma Flux (may it rest in piece....). Yes, we're behind in RC5, but the rift between the two teams (on daily's) is decreasing...that is to say, the rate of change of their overall RC5 block-count is decreasing. They're catching up in OGR, but maybe we can hold them off.
I think the point is that this is for fun (and if you're russ, to dominate and destroy
), and once it ceases to be fun, a lot of us will leave. Being abandonded by the rest of the team in a project is rather disheartening, and it makes it to be not very fun. I think this happened with a few members that I know of. The bickering that can go on, at times, is also disheartening to some, and I've seen a few either leave, or become more reclusive because of it.
I say, go forth and multiply, as that's the best way to keep up and stay ahead of the DPC.
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