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Posts by Cruncher Pete
1) Message boards : Wish List : Low credit for such a risky project (Message 111386)
Posted 22 Nov 2011 by Profile Cruncher Pete
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Albert@Home stats are currently being exported, I intend to shut this down late this week. There will be a news item (including RSS) at least 24h in advance.

But I still like to understand what happened here, how & why people that are only interested in credit ever attached a host to this project. This project was never meant to attract this kind of attention. I'd like to avoid such misunderstanding in the future.

BM


On checking your project, I see that you are a BOINC project. You are running their software and you advertised how to join your project. BOINC projects are credit based projects as the only thank you a project can give to a user is via a metric called cobbnlestones or credits. Your project be it a Test or Alpha project contributes nothing towards the maintenance of our machines or to the cost of Electricity. The least you could do to thank those that have contributed their time and cost to help you is to advertize those credits given by exporting the stats. If you do not wish to give credit, that is your provocative but you should not be using BOINC software for private testing.





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