January 12, 2006 - 18:30 UTC
In other fun news: We finally got around to adjusting Classic credit
for users that showed obvious signs of cheating. In Classic, it was
very easy to cheat the system to get credit without doing any actual
work. We ended up partially or entirely removing credit for about 900
of the top 10000 users (all of which had about 20000 or more credits).
Below that there wasn't enough data to show obvious signs of rampant
cheating (not to mention enough time and disk space to run the checks
on the remaining several million users). These adjusted credits should
be sync'ed up with the BOINC databases soon if not already.
Case closed.
