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[AMDave]

Cheaters' credits rescinded
At the end of February, we discovered that a small group of people were cheating by faking results. Changes were immediately made to our validation software to prevent this from happening again.We have rescinded all the credits from the users who were cheating. To be fair, we've also deducted those credits from the teams they were in. Of course, not everyone in their teams are cheaters, but fraudulently gained credits shouldn't count towards team scores. Some of the teams affected are amongst the oldest, largest teams here, and in some cases those teams have lost in excess of 1 billion credits.The other team members, no doubt, knew nothing of the cheating, so no stigma should be attached to these teams, or their members. I'm listing the teams here only so that if you suddenly see your team's credits and/or rank have dropped, you'll know why.The following teams (team ID: team name) have lost credits:64: BOINC@Taiwan1: BOINCsts103: Dutch Power Cows2887: TaiwanROC852: SETI@Taiwan �x�W�ζ�

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[NeoGen]

That is a shame... but I'm happy we are not among the listed teams. We may not be the top dogs but at least we are not cheaters.

[vaughan]

They have also publicly named and shamed the cheaters. GOOD.