Talk:BOINC Credit System

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What is little mentioned in discussions of BOINC by its proponents is that the competitive aspects of what could well be called the "BOINC-Credits Game" tends to overshadow its use as a scientific tool.

  • Weasel word

The very same people who hope to gain online social status by showing high point scores are also those who need the most policing to avoid cheating and spoofing.

  • Factually incorrect

The investigating scientists using this means of number crunching need no more statistics than they can pull from their own server. They can see how much of the body of data has been processed and how long it took. The game-style scorekeeping serves no purpose for most researchers.

  • Wesel word,pov

using their own machines and those upon which they can surreptitiously install the software while avoiding detection.