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Steve1979
Cruncher Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Post Count: 32 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BOINCstats lists active users as 85,642, and active hosts as 166,418.
----------------------------------------That's about 14% of hosts are active. I have 18 devices listed, with 3 active - 17% active - almost average. Some of these devices are duplicates, others are simply retired. Steve.  |
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Former Member
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I don't quite understand your flaming desire to put down other users, Scribe.
But your use of finished WUs to determine who has the right to speak in the forums (or the right to speak back when insulted) is quite interesting. Is this what the ranking denominations are for? Condescension from more experienced crunchers might not be the best incentive for newbies to become active. I am, however, happy to see more diplomatic posts from other crunchers in here. This might work against your attempts to scare new or under-achieving crunchers like myself away from the forums. I am well aware that the percentage of forum-active WCG-volunteers is minuscule, but I thought that such a poll might still be somewhat useful in order to better attract new volunteers. This is why I thought it might already have been done (I think that IBM could find a way to implement a tiny bit of polling software somewhere on wcg.org, even if it had to be outside of the forum, don't you?). Anyway, my question was only meant to explore how wcg works to attract new crunchers, and not to inspire mockery. As per the other discussion, I do think that any tool to more accurately measure the contributions to WCG would be helpful. But in the end, the most important thing is the amount of runtime generated and the number of projects finished. |
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Former Member
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..... But in the end, the most important thing is the amount of runtime generated and the number of projects finished. And I would be more inclined to listen to someone who has shown their committment by turning in more than one result in 6 months.... |
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Former Member
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So I gather from your incessive attempts to make a mockery of my initial question. Maybe life would be easier for us both if you just stopped using your CPU cycles to comment on threads started by people you don't want to listen to?
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1460 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Trommes, while WCG has no polls, there are public sites that do support them. You may google one and make a poll for all. I'd vote and also share the link with my team
----------------------------------------as for the question, i think these are main things that prompt people (): 1) no computer / no internet / no admin rights 2) no _personal benefits_ 3) some still think every dc project calculates a bomb / spy / etc. You'd be surprised but sometimes even free source codes do not help 4) laziness 5) no belief in project aims / cures |
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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rilian:
----------------------------------------1) no computer / no internet / no admin rights 2) no _personal benefits_ 3) some still think every dc project calculates a bomb / spy / etc. You'd be surprised but sometimes even free source codes do not help 4) laziness 5) no belief in project aims / cures Number 1 is a good point. People don't have own computers as they get their laptops from their employers. I also want to add to your list, that very few people knows what grid computing means...
to infinity and beyond
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Former Member
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I would have said that the list is NOT a Motivation for Joining WCG, it is a Motivation for NOT joing WCG, which is the direct opposite of what the thread was started for!
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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rilian, your list is a very good one for reasons (valid or not) for not joining WCG, plus the excellent one added by mikaok. But Trommes is looking for reasons motivating people to join WCG. It seems, from real life, that it is more difficult to find...
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Former Member
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Trommes, don't be distracted. A poll finding the turn-offs and ons is a way to identify what needs fixing and needs emphasizing.
Easier controls for one: The simplified view could probably do with a CPU % slider similar to the old UD throttle. When people start and build confidence and find it non-impeding, they're more likely to move it higher. Default 60% hidden in customs and advanced screens is not very inviting to the weary. At Berkeley there is already a poll result from 2008 or so. You might want to find it. Poll to include free form comment field. |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1460 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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BOINCstats lists active users as 85,642, and active hosts as 166,418. yea but there are 1000s of users who set "hide hosts" option ps: as for poll and reply, english is not my native and for some reason i always associated "prompt" = "delay". haha. well, i looked in the dictionary now tbw, Trommes, there was such poll on BOINC site http://boinc.berkeley.edu |
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