Folding Forum

I'm a member of the Ron Paul 2012 Team, 182919 rank 713. All of our active team members are from ronpaulforums and I've been doing some work to keep the team working. However, I don't know who created the team or any way to make contact with the person (we jumped on a previously created team as the name was ideal at the time). Now that Ron Paul 2012 isn't as relevant of a name, we might want to change the name to something more generic.

Also, assuming we are able to gain control and could change the name, are there any potentially negative affects of this action?

Thanks for the help!

Welcome to the forum Kornflake!

No, renaming the team shouldn't have any negative consequences like loss of points, etc. Everything should be fine. There's a link on the Stats page for renaming a team, but obviously you need the passwords first.

Maybe somebody should have though about that earlier. We are absolutely not a political forum and advertising is prohibited by FAH.

The work produced by your team is a permanent benefit to science but I'd think that reclaiming the points would be unimportant. They won't buy you anything and FAH is most definitely not associated with any political campaign.

bruce wrote:Maybe somebody should have though about that earlier. We are absolutely not a political forum and advertising is prohibited by FAH.

The work produced by your team is a permanent benefit to science but I'd think that reclaiming the points would be unimportant. They won't buy you anything and FAH is most definitely not associated with any political campaign.

I'm a little surprised by the tenure of your response. Points and teams are an important part of this effort. We were able to help a great deal and I wouldn't really consider it advertising more than many other team name. Regardless, we want to do something about things now, as per my first post.

bruce wrote:Maybe somebody should have though about that earlier. We are absolutely not a political forum and advertising is prohibited by FAH.

The work produced by your team is a permanent benefit to science but I'd think that reclaiming the points would be unimportant. They won't buy you anything and FAH is most definitely not associated with any political campaign.

Jeez Bruce... look at the top teams names and tell me that advertising is prohibited. Guess FAH better get on the ball and get them to all stop folding or change their names.

To rephrase, I'm hoping for either:

-A way to contact the owner of Ron Paul 2012
-A way to transfer the ownership of the team

because I want to see about possibly renaming the team.

Lol! If the name of the team constitutes advertising, then 90% of all teams require renaming. Rallying around a product, platform, OS, hobby, website, magazine, blog, person, or cause is half the reason why people join a team in the first place.

Honestly if its not vulgar (and not cheating like FTL), who cares what gets people to fold as long as they are folding.

If nvidia said, we will give you a 5% rebate on a Kepler card if you join our team (i.e. NVIDIA folds best) and produce 500,000 points within 90 days, would you say no? Be a pretty sweet deal to me, both for the user and the project (and nvidia sales maybe).

Ravage7779 wrote:Lol! If the name of the team constitutes advertising, then 90% of all teams require renaming. Rallying around a product, platform, OS, hobby, website, magazine, blog, person, or cause is half the reason why people join a team in the first place.

Honestly if its not vulgar (and not cheating like FTL), who cares what gets people to fold as long as they are folding.

If nvidia said, we will give you a 5% rebate on a Kepler card if you join our team (i.e. NVIDIA folds best) and produce 500,000 points within 90 days, would you say no? Be a pretty sweet deal to me, both for the user and the project (and nvidia sales maybe).

I agree lots of the teams are linked to an org

Look at the EVGA team #2, EVGA give out "evga Buck" for team folders reaching a set amount of points per month

The point then reduce the cost of hardware in Noth America and Europe

To rephrase, I'm hoping for either:

-A way to contact the owner of Ron Paul 2012

That's probably the best way forward.

FAH administration should be able to assist.

Like tear suggested...PM esorin

I believe he's the one you need to contact.

Thank you, I've submitted a PM!