Okay, after going to eat dinner, I have thought about why TA only has 600+ contributers compared to the 2000+ members in RC5.
This menas that old contributers have stopped for one reason or another. There are only a few amount of reasons out there (some of them pretty rational)
Joined and then quit because they felt the project was
1) hurting their computer's performance
2) reformmated and never bothered to put the client back on
3) Project lost it's flare
The first two are somewhat forgivable, but lets look at the third.
Why would RC5 lose it's flare?
1) Finally realized they were not going to win any money
2) Thought it was dull and pointless to go on
Why would members of the *best* team in the world think rc5 was dull and pointless?
Perhaps they figured their meager keyrate would not be missed or noticed. Perhaps they have started to go down (up) on mikas/dnet, (no longer improving in rank).
How can you make sure each member feels welcome here? Well you can say it repeatedly in the forums (amoung the many "woooo I just gained 12090982987911 places on dnet" threads). You can try to make them more competive, by having the lesser herded people compete against themselves, (wow my p2-400 just edged out your k6-500, wooooo *sarcasm*). Alternatly you can try to convince them to assimilate more (some of them can, many can't, it's just one computer for them for now). One other solution is to say wel now you two can feel like a big member, join our miniteam and you can compete against all those corporate guys.
In the end, miniteams kept som members cracking rc5 longer than they would have IF they remained solo. I am included in that statistic. What is more important, keeping the members that have joined TA or increasing your herds to fill the gap of members leaving? Eventually if you go the latter route, you will end up failing to fill the increasing number of lost cpus.
This menas that old contributers have stopped for one reason or another. There are only a few amount of reasons out there (some of them pretty rational)
Joined and then quit because they felt the project was
1) hurting their computer's performance
2) reformmated and never bothered to put the client back on
3) Project lost it's flare
The first two are somewhat forgivable, but lets look at the third.
Why would RC5 lose it's flare?
1) Finally realized they were not going to win any money
2) Thought it was dull and pointless to go on
Why would members of the *best* team in the world think rc5 was dull and pointless?
Perhaps they figured their meager keyrate would not be missed or noticed. Perhaps they have started to go down (up) on mikas/dnet, (no longer improving in rank).
How can you make sure each member feels welcome here? Well you can say it repeatedly in the forums (amoung the many "woooo I just gained 12090982987911 places on dnet" threads). You can try to make them more competive, by having the lesser herded people compete against themselves, (wow my p2-400 just edged out your k6-500, wooooo *sarcasm*). Alternatly you can try to convince them to assimilate more (some of them can, many can't, it's just one computer for them for now). One other solution is to say wel now you two can feel like a big member, join our miniteam and you can compete against all those corporate guys.
In the end, miniteams kept som members cracking rc5 longer than they would have IF they remained solo. I am included in that statistic. What is more important, keeping the members that have joined TA or increasing your herds to fill the gap of members leaving? Eventually if you go the latter route, you will end up failing to fill the increasing number of lost cpus.
We hope so!
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