I think we should talk about the recent removal of Moo! from the BOINC whitelist, commercial BOINC projects, DrugDiscovery@home, and whether or not we run the risk of becoming the deciding factor of what research is crunched for.

A strict set of whitelist guidelines is being developed, see: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/201

The whitelisting of projects should be a given; a courtesy to our commitment to transparency. As it is now, polls are subject to popularity contests, smear campaigns, poll manipulation through large stakes, etc. These things must be avoided at all costs, as I feel it reflects poorly on our community. Another example was how contentious the ODLK/ODLK1 polls were... subject of unsavory xenophobic comments, social politics, and general FUD.