I am ALL FOR a way to exclude BCU and maybe others from Combined Stats...
There's already a way to Exclude BU from the Combined Stats @ Free-DC...
I wasn't aware of that... but cool!
But when I see someone with maybe $250 worth of hardware climb the ranks 1 bil per day as compared to others that have invested many thousands of $$$, it's sad
LOL! I'm 60 and the same sort of boat as you... sort of semi-retired... My last electric bill was $600...
IN any case, preaching is allowed no matter who likes or doesn't like it.
But, I have been thinking... The thing that really bothers me, to put it bluntly, is on our team we have many folks been there 5 to 10 years (I been BOINCing since 2005) and some of us have particular interests... like cancer research, space, math etc... That being said, these folks earned their sometimes top positions through years of participation and investments... same as you SteVe. Then along comes someone brand new with a couple of $25 USB ASIC things and passes them up in "combined" points in a week and that can make a person feel poorly... I refused constantly to run BCU until a friend of mine mailed me a belated B-Day present of a 333MH/S USB thingy and I been running that for a while... amazingly I get about 340K points/day with it... I do it for my friend... he has since stopped nagging me... LOL!
In any case, I suppose some of what you and others say is valid as well. but sarcasm and name calling is a bit off topic don't you think? I might also add nobody has really given a good response to the fundraiser comparison either... Why not give only 1 or 100 points per task? Why not give away a T-Shirt for every n hashes? Points are nothing really, can't spend them...
In any case, to all, I'm glad there is a way to get stats that allow us to exclude a project, but it would be really nice to be able to exclude or include whatever we wanted! That would make contests and such much easier to watch... and that is a good idea I think!