Out of the initial 29 WUs on five machines, these are still either Pending Validation or In Progress. They are all remote and relatively slower machines. I might have a silver by the time the slowest machine is done, however.

erlc_ c132_ ps0000_ 0-- Pending Validation 2/19/10 05:25:31 2/22/10 05:19:17 47.21 769.8 / 0.0
erlc_ d175_ ps0000_ 1-- Pending Validation 2/17/10 20:00:13 2/22/10 17:23:57 35.85 541.9 / 0.0
erlc_ d172_ ps0000_ 0-- Pending Validation 2/17/10 19:58:42 2/22/10 17:23:57 35.93 543.0 / 0.0
erlc_ d170_ ps0000_ 0-- Pending Validation 2/17/10 19:58:16 2/21/10 02:50:27 37.17 561.8 / 0.0


erlc_ c188_ ps0000_ 1-- In Progress 2/19/10 05:39:51 3/5/10 05:39:51 0.00 0.0 / 0.0
erlc_ c187_ ps0000_ 1-- In Progress 2/19/10 05:39:25 3/5/10 05:39:25 0.00 0.0 / 0.0
erlc_ c140_ ps0000_ 1-- In Progress 2/19/10 05:27:20 3/5/10 05:27:20 0.00 0.0 / 0.0
erlc_ c139_ ps0000_ 0-- In Progress 2/19/10 05:27:00 3/5/10 05:27:00 0.00 0.0 / 0.0
erlc_ c034_ ps0000_ 1-- In Progress 2/19/10 05:05:08 3/5/10 05:05:08 0.00 0.0 / 0.0 <=== Old and very slow

The new badge hunters slowed down this project by about a week!

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Kindly set your cache to something reasonable such as 0.5days, rather than 10days, with one project selected! This is not a competition between participants.

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**edited for intolerance**tkh

Hey, what's your problem....???? Bad day at work??? Jealous, that you don't have the bronze badge yet...???

Did you think about the average cruncher, those 95%, who are not permanently active in this forum... Those, who have maybe one or two PC's, working from 9 to 5 a day, and have their cache set to 0.01 days, and have set "opt to add me into new projects". When they get a WU of 30 to 100 hours, you can imagine how long ot takes until theit return theit results. Especially, when one of them is on sick leave (happens often in winter time), or might is on ski vacation (also not unusual currently).

So because of their percentage quota, their will be many WU's, which will take long for validation, and IMHO also pretty much will be rated as "not returned". That is what can happen, if there are such "monster" WU's which might run up to 100 hours...

You should consider such facts before you attack users here, which do return their results in time...

My 0.02€

Much kinder words than I would have said, I started 2 posts and deleted them both,
As one of the earlier badge people I have finished all 21 WU that I have downloaded (cept for a couple errors) and am back on another project, be careful what you Assume people have set their caches at.

The "Post DDDT2 A type Crunching Depression Blues" is setting in with force". 1 out of 8 validated, but the credit/ (or as DM puts it), DY points, making up a good part of the potential cure. Let those 7 get validated this afternoon, pretty plz.

Statistics Last Updated:  23-2-10 12:06:00 (UTC) [0 hour(s) ago]
Project 	Points
Generated 	Results Returned 	Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 	Badges Earned
Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 	5,229 	1 	0:001:22:39:54

The validation statistics expressing unspeakable words, mi non capisco bene, if there were 5 sets of 1,000 circulated of targets a through e:

19th 36
20th 130
21st 250
22nd 222
23rd 44 (morning session)

Total 682