I noted on the leaderboard stats someone had been "banished" - which I don't quite understand.

Are there rules that lead to penalties of some kind - i.e., I set my preferences to some huge precache, download bunches of work units due in a month or two - then have to leave crunching unexpectedly, or otherwise forget - those WU's will time out and get reissued, but delay the progress - is that enough to nudge you onto a blacklist of some kind?

This isn't limited to SETI - (although I know all projects via BOINC have their own terms and rules)

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The banishment usually only matters for forum use, not for the getting of and returning of work. If you don't follow the rules of posting (on the left of every post window you open), you can get banished (for two weeks, or more if you persist).

There have only been a couple of complete banishes, where the person's accounts were frozen. But to accomplish that you really have to make a mess of things. More on that can be read here. (also found under the "More info" link on the left of post windows).

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Ok - thanks, simple enough.

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