I get the impression it was just around having a discernible end point of 100%, with member numbers increasing and people not being implicitly aware of the number of members, the percentile option was seen as preferable. Not surprising since as you said previously, you only need a handful of CPU days to get into the top 50% so it's nice for those just starting out, but once you've got some RT under your belt it pretty much makes no odds unless you're a "mega-cruncher" who can see they are in the top 1%

Hear hear... No parameters, no argument! Thanks for defending our honour

I thought I'd have a quick look at the suggestions forum to see if there had been any suggestions around creating stats for active members only. Found a thread about removing/merging devices which had turned into a real shouting match around WCG marketing x-million devices to get funding and support, so not wanting to do anything to reduce that number and then another line around suggesting frivolous changes that take the overworked techs away from more important issues like fixing faulty servers and improving reliability, security, etc... Which of course I fully support.

The phrase that came to mind at that point was "slowly back out of the door"

My favourite thread to avoid is entitled "Not sure how much longer they will be able to keep crunching in the UK"

Number of times I've been tempted to post but then just thought... it's not worth getting into the argument.

Welcome to the UK team djerram. Glad to have you on board!
WCG Member since February 2005 (A real veteran!)
RT 28:129:11:28:09 (#2,322) Pts 22,545,308 (#2,742) Res 39,670 (#3,156) Av RT pd 0:003:18:15:25

I have less than another 2 hours before cores slowley begin to become dormant I thought I had a enough work units to see me for over a day, but a fair few were really short (a couple less than an hour).

Looks like I might run out of work before the servers are back up and running

Welcome to the team djerram

Have set both systems to 1.5 days now, just waiting on the servers to allow me to download more, the quaddie should be okay until about midnight (fingers crossed), and have installed some updates and restarted the I7 which has in turn has given me a little more time before I begin to run out.

All Work Units on the I7 are finished or are being worked on, so 1 hour 15 mins approx till more 1st core runs out .

Better news though, I've hit 32 Million Points for the team