It's simply a function of the number of posts you make here. Crunching is not enough, you need to get 50 posts in e.g. before rising to Senior Cruncher annd so on until the highest grade at > 4000 when you become Ace Cruncher.

You can safely ignore these misleading forum grades which are simply confusing for new forum users. I would much like that "cruncher" be replaced by something more appropriate, or even that this feature of the forum software be simply de-activated.
Since the number of posts is clearly shown there is no need for these grades.

Just my 2 cents. Jean.

Edit: And since it has not been clearly stated in this thread, "cruncher" in the distributed computing jargon is short for "number cruncher" and can refer to either a machine doing that or the owner of such machines.

Only the Techs, Community Advisors and Scientists and other specials roles should still be visible, I guess.

These post-ranking might make some people post 'useless' messages to raise their ranking :-)

... is this a useless message from me?

personaly i would love it if they changed the titles of cruncher and such with a years crunched or something of the like... great way and its also kinda like badges since some people may crunch only 1 project and be Sapphire 4 ever and still choose not to crunch anything else.. just my idea on another way to rait users