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Thread: are badges hurting some projects here? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
i love doing all of it, but i question if HPF and FAAH are suffering due to people chasing badges.
i have loaded up on those two  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello halfcard,
No. WCG supports individual free choice. It is the best way to attract and keep members. However, a large number of contributors are hands-off, willing to leave things to chance or the WCG staff. The WCG staff can set proportional ratios in the server which keep every project busy while allowing each member to make his own informed decision about how his computer contributes. Lawrence |
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I see what you mean halfcard, I myself, even though I say that I am not badge hunting, currently am doing just that by trying to reach the ruby on HCC, setting aside for the time being other projects that I would like to be involved in (on top of HCC) like CEP2 and FAAH.
----------------------------------------All in all, Lawrence is right though. Even if it weren't for badges, I just said that I would probably only crunch CEP2, FAAH and HCC (since C4CW is gone). Anyway, great question and I hope I will be able to follow the debate that will ensue. Cheers! Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein   |
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PecosRiverM
Veteran Cruncher The Great State of Texas Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 1054 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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i love doing all of it, but i question if HPF and FAAH are suffering due to people chasing badges. I would think just the opposite. There are projects that don't fire my interest. I crunch those just for the badge. So they get 2, 5, maybe 10yrs from me they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.   edit: One should NEVER type before the 1st Pot of Coffee.   [Edit 1 times, last edit by PecosRiverM at Mar 7, 2013 6:24:39 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Do not hesitate to fact-check before letting helium and CO filled balloons fly. Each [temporary] dive and spike in a science's contribution has a story, and maybe the techs have not been running their joystick operated feeder share game for a while, but to me the longer term balance is pretty much within reason, and maybe a bit of the noted opposite.
Fact check location one: http://bit.ly/WCGYPM, HPF2/FAAH pretty much rank ex aequo on second spot for the past 12 months, no project able to compete with HCC's GPU exclusive use, number one. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
thanks for replies, looks fine to me.
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