What are the various decorations on people's entries? Like "Volunteer tester" and whatever else people have? Yes, this is temporary as far as I'm concerned. Everyone else knows. I don't though.

What are the various decorations on people's entries? Like "Volunteer tester" and whatever else people have? Yes, this is temporary as far as I'm concerned. Everyone else knows. I don't though.

Volunteer tester menas you have helped out with testing new apps and the like over at SETI Beta

The badges refer to your Recent Average Credit (RAC) and show if your RAC is in the top 25%, 5 % or 1%

The top RAC is currently 483,481

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You forgot the green star. It means you have donated money to SETI project.

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...which reminds me - I must re-ignite my green star

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

You forgot the green star. It means you have donated money to SETI project.

... in the last year.

HOWEVER: absence of a green star does not mean the user hasn't donated. You can choose to hide the fact that you've donated.

(In my case, though, it does mean I haven't lately.)

(Update: that has now been remedied.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

(In my case, though, it does mean I haven't lately.)

(Update: that has now been remedied.)

Well done David, good man. The minimum donation is still just $10 (€8.8, £6.90).

You can give less, just not directly through the donations page. Flatr and Goodsearch give micro amounts, both on the project front page.

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Oh!

...which reminds me - I must re-ignite my green star

Yes, they wear out once a year

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(In my case, though, it does mean I haven't lately.)

(Update: that has now been remedied.)

Well done David, good man. The minimum donation is still just $10 (€8.8, £6.90).

You can give less, just not directly through the donations page. Flatr and Goodsearch give micro amounts, both on the project front page.

I didn't even read that into it (although I didn't try to donate less and may have missed it). The only thing I saw was that you have to have donated $10 within the last year to have a star. I read that as, you can donate $1/month and keep your star as long as you do. Or even 84c/month. Their credit card processing system might barf on that, though.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

(In my case, though, it does mean I haven't lately.)

(Update: that has now been remedied.)

Well done David, good man. The minimum donation is still just $10 (€8.8, £6.90).

You can give less, just not directly through the donations page. Flatr and Goodsearch give micro amounts, both on the project front page.

I didn't even read that into it (although I didn't try to donate less and may have missed it). The only thing I saw was that you have to have donated $10 within the last year to have a star. I read that as, you can donate $1/month and keep your star as long as you do. Or even 84c/month. Their credit card processing system might barf on that, though.

The automated system for the green star uses the credit card processing and that indeed has a bottom limit of $10/per donation. There are/were other methods of giving where the green star was added by hand and I don't know if $10 was a minimum via those methods or not. However I was pointing out that you can donate less than $10 at a time, if you don't have that much or don't have access to a credit card that is accepted by UC Berkeley. Also if you are a US resident the donation is tax deductible, and may be deductible in some other countries, check with your tax man.

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Also if you are a US resident the donation is tax deductible, and may be deductible in some other countries, check with your tax man.

That reminds me: I should mark it as deductible in Quicken.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

My star should re-ignite:

You gave $*****

to SETI@home

on February 12, 2016

via Mastercard
Your confirmation number is 177298

btw - there is a dedicated pay-by-card page - https://give.berkeley.edu/egiving/index.cfm?Org=SETI@home&Fund=FB0231000&givernote=226846

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Click on anyone's green star and you'll be taken to
a place where you can donate.

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~Sue~

You can delete or lock this thread now. I have my answers.