SETI: Congratulations to all of the TeAm Mates on "TeAm Crazee Smoke"

[Engineer]

A hearty congrats to Greg, Will and the Crazee Smoke crew on a great...and I mean great....WU mark!

You guys are awsome...true leaders and motivaters. I salute you and your special crew!

Now get off your butts and assimilate something!

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: kamper
who's all on that team? I thought it was just crazee and smoke

All you have to do is click on the link in my sigline.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Smoke

Originally posted by: kamper
who's all on that team? I thought it was just crazee and smoke

All you have to do is click on the link in my sigline.

Wow, that's quite a good spread, I guess most of them don't show up here then
Now I see that you have custom names for the clients (ie. "Smoke's Home Queue"). That's what I was asking about a month or so ago. How did you do that?

 

[wischeez]

Congrats on the 1/4 million mark Smoke and the crew Keep on crunchin' for another 1/4 mil.:beer:

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: wischeez
Congrats on the 1/4 million mark Smoke and the crew Keep on crunchin' for another 1/4 mil.:beer:

Holy Smoke :Q

I haven't been paying attention, the numbers have gotten well, outta space

Wow!!!

 

[Spacehead]

Congrats Smoke & all the "little folks"

:beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine::beer::wine:

 

[toft-dk]

AWSOME ACHIEVEMENT

Congrats

 

[zaph]

Wow,
Extra cruncy-lichious

 

[ericlp]

congrats!!!

 

[mk]

Congrats to Crazee, Smoke and everyone else involved, that's and awesome milestone!

Keep crunching! :beer::beer:

 

[PraetorianGuards]

Congrats Smoke! :beer::beer:

 

[blx53]

Woooooow
Congrats Smoke!!! :beer::beer::beer:

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath
You mean your team is made up of more than just you? Isn't that sort of cheating in regards to the ranking system? I always thought it meant more if you were by yourself. The TeAm is for groups of people. If you were in the top 100 by yourself that's impressive, if you're just a group of people using the same seti ID it's kinda lame.

No offense intended but you do know you're talking about (IMO) 2 of the most important members of this team, right? Either way, the team of Crazy Smoke is no different than the Federation, Rebal Alliance, BnT, or any other mini-team. The main draw of Distributed Computing is competition and I think having mini-teams increases competition as well as production so in the end the entire team benefits. That said, how can they be a bad thing?

Congrats to Crazy Smoke!

 

[wischeez]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath
You mean your team is made up of more than just you? Isn't that sort of cheating in regards to the ranking system? I always thought it meant more if you were by yourself. The TeAm is for groups of people. If you were in the top 100 by yourself that's impressive, if you're just a group of people using the same seti ID it's kinda lame.

No offense intended but you do know you're talking about (IMO) 2 of the most important members of this team, right? Either way, the team of Crazy Smoke is no different than the Federation, Rebal Alliance, BnT, or any other mini-team. The main draw of Distributed Computing is competition and I think having mini-teams increases competition as well as production so in the end the entire team benefits. That said, how can they be a bad thing?

Congrats to Crazy Smoke!

Well said Robor!

All WU's end up in the same place....OUR TeAm!!!

 

[DoritoOfDeath]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath
You mean your team is made up of more than just you? Isn't that sort of cheating in regards to the ranking system? I always thought it meant more if you were by yourself. The TeAm is for groups of people. If you were in the top 100 by yourself that's impressive, if you're just a group of people using the same seti ID it's kinda lame.

No offense intended but you do know you're talking about (IMO) 2 of the most important members of this team, right? Either way, the team of Crazy Smoke is no different than the Federation, Rebal Alliance, BnT, or any other mini-team. The main draw of Distributed Computing is competition and I think having mini-teams increases competition as well as production so in the end the entire team benefits. That said, how can they be a bad thing?

Congrats to Crazy Smoke!

I see no reason for mini-teams really. It skews the ranking system for individual achievements. That's why there is a "group" ranking, for teams. The normal account ranking is for individuals. It makes the individual ranking system completely obsolete.

If anything it kills competition having mini-teams, because it discourages the individual trying to move up in rankings for fun. I know they're no different than the other mini-teams, which is equally lame (in regards to the individual account ranking system, not necessarily the people involved). You get the same production if the 2 or more people crunch with their own accounts as you do if they're together. What's to stop the TeAm from ALL using the same account for SETI2 just to be #1 in the individual account system? Sounds pretty unfair to the individual account holders that enjoy moving up in the rankings competing against other individuals. A team is for team play, that's why there is a "group ranking" listing. I don't see a Group Ranking, Mini-Team Ranking, and Individual Ranking listed. Granted it would be near impossible to police individual ranking, as it would mostly be a voluntary thing and we all know people are untrustworthy in these types of situation. Someone always has to cheat the system to move up in the rankings.

 

[DoritoOfDeath]

Granted 250k is great if it's only 2 people. That still equates to 125k each individually. But if it's like 50 people it's pretty silly to not just form your own team.

 

[ICXRa]

Congrats!

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath
You mean your team is made up of more than just you? Isn't that sort of cheating in regards to the ranking system? I always thought it meant more if you were by yourself. The TeAm is for groups of people. If you were in the top 100 by yourself that's impressive, if you're just a group of people using the same seti ID it's kinda lame.

No offense intended but you do know you're talking about (IMO) 2 of the most important members of this team, right? Either way, the team of Crazy Smoke is no different than the Federation, Rebal Alliance, BnT, or any other mini-team. The main draw of Distributed Computing is competition and I think having mini-teams increases competition as well as production so in the end the entire team benefits. That said, how can they be a bad thing?

Congrats to Crazy Smoke!

I see no reason for mini-teams really. It skews the ranking system for individual achievements. That's why there is a "group" ranking, for teams. The normal account ranking is for individuals. It makes the individual ranking system completely obsolete.

If anything it kills competition having mini-teams, because it discourages the individual trying to move up in rankings for fun. I know they're no different than the other mini-teams, which is equally lame (in regards to the individual account ranking system, not necessarily the people involved). You get the same production if the 2 or more people crunch with their own accounts as you do if they're together. What's to stop the TeAm from ALL using the same account for SETI2 just to be #1 in the individual account system? Sounds pretty unfair to the individual account holders that enjoy moving up in the rankings competing against other individuals. A team is for team play, that's why there is a "group ranking" listing. I don't see a Group Ranking, Mini-Team Ranking, and Individual Ranking listed. Granted it would be near impossible to police individual ranking, as it would mostly be a voluntary thing and we all know people are untrustworthy in these types of situation. Someone always has to cheat the system to move up in the rankings.

You make a decent point however I must still disagree. I'm an individual running my entire fleet (including many office machines) under my own account. The Crazee Smoke team is now ahead of me in overall production and I'm not discouraged in any way. My production didn't go down as a result of them merging their accounts and passing me. In fact, my production has actually increased since I've been passed. It's totally unrelated to being passed, I'm just making a point.

Also, in the case of the Crazee Smoke team, Greg (Smoke) has been recruiting members to produce under his ID for a while now. As individuals they would make a small impact but together as TeAm Smoke they are a force. Plus Greg's gone out of his way to assist these recruited members with computer support in return for running SETI.

But to answer your question, there's nothing stopping an entire group or team from running under a single ID. I doubt you'll see it happen and even if it did they wouldn't be cheating anyone. It's not as though any mini-teams are disguising themselves as a single ID or anything. Maybe I'm too "TeAm focused" but I couldn't care less about my individual stats. As I said before, find a user with as many or more WU's than I have and I'll let them merge my account into theirs as long as they stay on TeAm Anandtech.

 

[theNorse]

. . . Real Nice Going Smoke :wine:*clink*:wine:

. . . One 4 the TeAm











Norse (nobody)

 

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: DoritoOfDeath
You mean your team is made up of more than just you? Isn't that sort of cheating in regards to the ranking system? I always thought it meant more if you were by yourself. The TeAm is for groups of people. If you were in the top 100 by yourself that's impressive, if you're just a group of people using the same seti ID it's kinda lame.

No offense intended but you do know you're talking about (IMO) 2 of the most important members of this team, right? Either way, the team of Crazy Smoke is no different than the Federation, Rebal Alliance, BnT, or any other mini-team. The main draw of Distributed Computing is competition and I think having mini-teams increases competition as well as production so in the end the entire team benefits. That said, how can they be a bad thing?

Congrats to Crazy Smoke!

I see no reason for mini-teams really. It skews the ranking system for individual achievements. That's why there is a "group" ranking, for teams. The normal account ranking is for individuals. It makes the individual ranking system completely obsolete.

If anything it kills competition having mini-teams, because it discourages the individual trying to move up in rankings for fun. I know they're no different than the other mini-teams, which is equally lame (in regards to the individual account ranking system, not necessarily the people involved). You get the same production if the 2 or more people crunch with their own accounts as you do if they're together. What's to stop the TeAm from ALL using the same account for SETI2 just to be #1 in the individual account system? Sounds pretty unfair to the individual account holders that enjoy moving up in the rankings competing against other individuals. A team is for team play, that's why there is a "group ranking" listing. I don't see a Group Ranking, Mini-Team Ranking, and Individual Ranking listed. Granted it would be near impossible to police individual ranking, as it would mostly be a voluntary thing and we all know people are untrustworthy in these types of situation. Someone always has to cheat the system to move up in the rankings.

You make a decent point however I must still disagree. I'm an individual running my entire fleet (including many office machines) under my own account. The Crazee Smoke team is now ahead of me in overall production and I'm not discouraged in any way. My production didn't go down as a result of them merging their accounts and passing me. In fact, my production has actually increased since I've been passed. It's totally unrelated to being passed, I'm just making a point.

Also, in the case of the Crazee Smoke team, Greg (Smoke) has been recruiting members to produce under his ID for a while now. As individuals they would make a small impact but together as TeAm Smoke they are a force. Plus Greg's gone out of his way to assist these recruited members with computer support in return for running SETI.

But to answer your question, there's nothing stopping an entire group or team from running under a single ID. I doubt you'll see it happen and even if it did they wouldn't be cheating anyone. It's not as though any mini-teams are disguising themselves as a single ID or anything. Maybe I'm too "TeAm focused" but I couldn't care less about my individual stats. As I said before, find a user with as many or more WU's than I have and I'll let them merge my account into theirs as long as they stay on TeAm Anandtech.

Well if it wasn't for the Rebel Alliance Miniteam we would still be in 7th as I would not have been able to get my friends and coworkers crunching any other way as most of them have no interest in joining Anandtech or in coming to this site. By having a miniteam for them to join it gives them a common interest and helps to keep them crunching

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
Well if it wasn't for the Rebel Alliance Miniteam we would still be in 7th as I would not have been able to get my friends and coworkers crunching any other way as most of them have no interest in joining Anandtech or in coming to this site. By having a miniteam for them to join it gives them a common interest and helps to keep them crunching

Thank you Freewolf! I'm glad to hear you say that. Again, kudos to TeAm Crazee Smoke and kudos to the other mini-teams!

 

[Crazee]

Wow :Q Thanks everyone for the kind words

Sorry things have been out of control at work with stupid users connecting to their webmail and getting their machines infected with mydoom.f :|

I haven't been around as much lately as I would like to be. I am hopeful that things will settle down a little and I will have more time here again as well as a chance to get the Death Star fully operational again :evil: