profile setup policy

Bernd Machenschalk
Bernd Machenschalk
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Topic 13712

Due to recently massive abuse of the Einstein@home website for hosting content that can only be described as spam we had to restrict creation of user profiles to participants that already donated some computation time and gained some credit.

Also profiles of accounts that don't even have a single host attached have been disabled. This was meant to block the existing spam content from being shown on this website. If any human participant (instead of a spam bot) was affected by this, he can simply create the profile again. If for any reason you can't do this (because you don't have a backup or sth.), please notify the moderators, we'll take a look at the profile an might re-enable it.

Sorry for anyone interested in this project who was unintentionally affected by this, but with the more than 60.000 actual spam accounts we couldn't take a close look at each individual profile.

BM

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