Seems like a no brainer - mature, responsible - and friendly.  Plus he's heavily invested in the community of the server!  What more could you want? 

Since I gave you $10,000 worth of pistons does that count?   

(kidding - good luck finishing it off!  Let me know how I can help.)

I read several threads about the voting page but didn't see this topic.

On the Opticraft voting page, I enter my name and for two of the sites I enter a Capthca.   However, everytime I am transferred to the voting site and I have to enter a Captcha again.   I assume it was supposed to be sent over automatically (otherwise what's the point of entering it on Opticraft).  

I'm using IE 8.   Is there a way to avoid this?   (I'll try it on Firefox as soon as I can vote again but wanted to see if this is a known issue).

(Argh - I thought I was on the Support thread when I posted - sorry)

No problem Viper.   I ignored the parts I didn't like.   

And pistons  

Funny.  I'm in discussion on a separate thread about this topic.  A fully automated version is frowned upon because of impact to server.   However, setup a button, redstone circuit to the pistons, and then have a water flow carry the melon down.

There are tons of (better) designs on line.  A simple one would look something like this:  
(R is redstone and/or repeater as necessary, C cobble/filler, P piston, W Water  D dirt, M melon stalk - pistons/cobble are one level higher than the "M/melon stalk" so that when the piston fires it pushes the melon into the water)
R  R  R  R   R  R   R
R  P  D  W  D  P  R
R  C  M  W M  C  R
R  P  D  W  D  P  R
            |          R
            |          R
            v          R
collection point   (button)

Is there a problem if we use a redstone clock to autofarm melons?   I know a bunch of people are doing this but someone told me tonight that I shouldn't.  What's the official word on this?

Congrats hutch!   Great news and well deserved.   I hope you know what you are in for! 

Anyone have a suggestion for trouble shooting a set of pistons that gets set in the "open" position?   I have 6 rows in the auto-farm that work and this one that stays as if they are always powered on.  All the others work normally.

This one row stays activated even when I completely disable the entire redstone circuit.   

This row is on the same power feed as a second set of pistons on the other side.  Those work fine.

Any ideas?