# 1 in DC

[Brucifer]

And all I did was pop over to say a friendly congrats, and I get shot down, my Vault gets shot down... SNIP

@russkris -- You did nothing wrong here and your congratulating the team for the #1 was a kind and polite thing to do and is appreciated. Your DC_Vault wasn't shot down either. It's a fun thing for those that play in it and a large number of people do. So you shouldn't take any of this as anything against you. It was/is a purely internal *philosophical* thing regarding points generation, application, and interpretation between me and a comment or two here among and_users.

You have a wide following on the DCV. It's a kick to play. My coments only reflected that it shouldn't be used as a measure of a team's strength as every team listed may or maynot be concerned about where they fall in the ranking. That has absolutely nothing to do about you. You have a good product that reflects a lot of work and devotion on your part and that is admired by the greatest majority of people in the DC world. I am sorry if you feel that you were cast in a negative light. If you read back, you will see that I referred to the #1 as comming from the original starter of the thread, which was not your congratualtory comment to the team. It is a good team, and it is a good place to hang out. Please keep up your good work on the DCV.

[Brucifer]

To everyone else, if my comments have offended you I'm sorry as that was not the intent. I learned a lesson from this.

[Steve Lux]

Some of us here on the AMD Users team pay as little attention to the DC Vault rankings and scores as apparently some FDC team members do. To me only a very few projects are worth the time of my computers. In the context of what I find to be of value I'll help out the team, but if I don't see the value of a project then I doubt I'll help the team with its rankings in that area.

I'll help where I think the effort can better the human condition, but to be clear I see little value in locating prime numbers and counting key strokes compared to the effort to find cures for diseases or to understand the trends of climate change. In the areas that are intended to preserve humanity and solve issues of life and death I'll do what I can, but all else is secondary. To me it's an issue of what we need to learn vs. what we want to learn.

Now, if I had a big farm where I could justify a little extra while ensuring that the "real" work is being done, well that might be a different situation. If some consider me disloyal because I don't support every call to arms of the moment, well they need only consider that all of what I do produce is in fact credited to the team. My preference with the resources I have is to pick my projects carefully and apply slow and steady pressure to them.

[NeoGen]

Calls to arms are not mandatory at all, they never were, and I hope no one thinks they are. From what I've always seen here, everyone is encouraged to crunch what they like the most, and I'm actually thankful that not everyone responds to the calls of arms, or else we would make great races on 1 or 2 projects and great falls on the other 50 projects.

Bottomline... crunch what you like the most guys, and if it happens that we're doing a call to arms on a project that you like then you can even help us out a little on it if you want.