Due to the problems at Berkeley today I have been paying a bit more attention to the stats on seti at work than I have for a very long time. and I noticed that despite the youth of this team, there are a significant number of inactive members.

I always think this makes our stats look tatty, and I am sure there are very good reasons why some of the members have stopped, perhaps switched to other BOINC projects, life got in the way etc etc.

Well I was thinking, what about those of us with multiple machines crunch units for an inactive account? I know this would mean contacting members (Kinguni) and seeing if they agree to this and obviously getting the necessary information to crunch on the account, but it strikes me that if we could get every member showing as ACTIVE, it would look a lot better, it may actually gain us members too. Bear in mind that this would not harm the team as the same total number of units would still be produced, but it could inspire some of the inactive members to become active again...so we should gain overall..

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

My preferred project is E@H. This means that I have not crunched a SETI WU for many months. However, with the E@H S5 data coming to an end shortly (maybe this month?), I have resumed SETI on one machine already, with a reduced resource share. I would guess that a lot of other members are also crunching other projects. Surely, this is the beauty of the BOINC software. As such, I do not see the relevance of inactive members in any project.

FD.

I have stopped crunching SETI for religious reasons, and will post here later (or tomorrow) when SETI is back up, a new email address and password for the account.  There is more at stake in compromising my account thusly than having an un-tatty stats page is worth.

Otherwise, I have another 5 projects which have work and battle over resources per the rules of the Marquis of BOINC.