1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Zero credit for work that seems to be complete (Message 42127) Posted 2 Nov 2004 by capobian Post: Yes, yes. I understand all that. No promises. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Don't take any wooden nickels. etc. It just seems to me that the old method, no matter how flawed, was simple. Do a work unit, get credit for it. If you get a short unit, lucky you. If you get a long unit, that's the breaks. Maybe to simple! So how about we get credit for the work being done? OK. Good in theory but hard to impliment. I'll grant you that. But back to my first question. Why was this work unit granted 0.00 credit? Maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to process but this is not a "pending" credit, it's been granted 0.00. Here's another work unit (like I said I have 35 in the month of October alone): http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1678732 This work unit recieved its 3rd successful result on 10/13, 19 days ago and still lists 0.00 credits granted. I think this might be a bug. Still smiling!

2) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Zero credit for work that seems to be complete (Message 42091) Posted 2 Nov 2004 by capobian Post: Can someone explain to me this work unit? http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=2748984 There are 3 successful completions of this work unit but zero credit is granted the jobs that completed. Why?? This has happened to me 35 times in last month. That would be a loss of over 1000 credits! And on the same theme of unrewarded work is the whole "Couldn't validate - missing file" mess. Now if I screw up and my work can not be validated, it's correct to recieve no credit. But if BOINC or the Seti client screw up, we should recieve our credit. We did, afterall, do the work. So what you can't verify it. That's not our fault. A running CPU burns up more electricity and generates more heat than an idle CPU so these cycles are not really free for us. The projects should be trying to give us credit for work whenever possible, not trying to strip credit away for any reason at all!

 
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