The widget is good idea, but you can't put it as signature in forums..

I still think that WCG ought to host some sort of banner-statistics program for the benefit of teams and members who want to use them. Seems that that would be the least it could do in exchange for all the crunching. Is there some valid reason why they can't or won't, or have they never considered it? Where do I need to post or send an email to take this to the next level? The widgets which were suggested are not the same thing and do not replace banners, although I do thank Didactylos for his suggestion.

And I might add that I don't just donate the spare power on my computer; I have been a very active recruiter for WCG using my own website and domain names for that purpose -- see Velek.com, for example, and also 2plus2is4.com, although the latter primarily promotes grid-computing in general but uses the World Community Grid, including a link to it, as the only actual project example. In addition, I have repeatedly orchestrated several recruitment campaigns within the brewing community for my 'Homebrewers' team, which is still in the Top-100 teams at WCG (I've relinquished the position of 'Captain', but I was the founder and am still the oldest member of our group). I'm not looking for a pat on the back, but I'd like to think that I deserve about one minute of attention from someone with actual authority at the WCG on this question/request for a WCG-hosted banner program.

Thanks.

Bill, stats signatures are only really meaningful in DC circles - beyond that, they are just cryptic and annoying. So, since there are already perfectly good stats banners available, WCG don't feel any pressing need to duplicate that work.

For sites outside the DC world, just extract the logo image from the widget and use that.

This is why a stats banner has never even made it onto the todo list (although non-stats banners were on the wish list for a long time until the widget was created). Still, we're happy to discuss this further if you want.