Quote Originally Posted by blackheath View Post
I'm with Terry on this one, especially around the point (no pun intended) he made on "the tweaking and system talk that we all have in common is a far greater draw than points that really have no worth." - as I'm crunching due to having a computing hobbie and the points system simply allows me to gauge how much more I can push out of a system compared with other like minded enthusiasts (i don't care if I'm top or bottom, although top does have a feelgood factor - apparently!!! )- the science is just an added bonus but in all honesty I have no clue what some of them are doing with the results, I enjoyed HashClash but I don't understand it and even though the forum was rife with members complaining about points cheating the project was effectively completed simply due to us members throwing our systems at it and there is no actual harm to the science whether we are optimized or not!

Right then, time to put my money where my mouth is and shutdown all my systems, get into BIOS and tweak these mothers till they melt!!!
Go look at all of the posts................ how much is about getting points on various projects, and then compare that with how large?small the "hardware" thread is, etc.

LOL If points don't matter then why is the team on all the projects, why do we have all the threads on projects, why don't we just withdraw from it all and see how far this site goes as a gossip/hobby. Why do so many people worry about getting more systems bought/borged? Why don't lots more people just take the "anonymous" path of dumping in all their machine time and results into the big void in the sky so they or anyone else has no idea what they have or are doing?

It's because of the points. Period.