wow long post but seems to explain things good to me as i understand it

Hmm I think I understand the points made, and I can see skgivens point. If a large team of crunchers comes to WCG to help a specific project that is close to their hearts such as HCMD, their members might reasonably expect that crunching HCMD exclusively would speed up the completion time of their project.

In reality because of the project levelling in the feeders they'd speed up the HCMD project just as much if they all crunched CEP WU's because of the way WU's are distributed.

If I understand correctly skgivens argument he is suggesting that the feeders are topped up by adding extra project specific WU's to top up those extracted from the "All Projects" WU pool by dedicated single project crunchers.

By compensating in this way the balance of work in the pool received by "All Projects" crunchers would remain in line with the original project weighting, and those wishing to dedicate their efforts to a single project would see their efforts rewarded by a slightly quicker finish for that project as their WU's would be in addition to the general share, rather than part of it.

Sounds reasonable to me.

this is a very interesting discussion, I totally understand Skgiven's point. Skgiven is NOT saying he wants the ability to penalize any project. Skgiven is complaining about the fact that his/her extra crunch time can not truly be geared towards one project. The extra time may be directed to one project of his/her choosing, but the end result is that it goes into a big pool for all projects.
A very similar argument happens all the time during election season. There are usually propositions to raise taxes for 1 thing, like schools. When this happens LOTs of people were saying all of this money will go to schools and it will help kids. Now this in reality is about 75% true. This is because technically all of the money will go to schools, but in reality is that the politicians also planned on reducing school funding to help fund other projects. This is what happened during the last election in Az. The politicians straight out and said that even if the 1% sales tax passes for schools, there will be school cuts. Now the general public didn't listen to this, all they think about is this money goes to the kids. Saying the tax is for kids was just a sales pitch to rally public support.

Now let me say that I do NOT believe that WCG is intentionally doing this. WCG is non-profit and are just trying to help the world. WCG and other program like this are great and I support them. I also understand from a technical point of view it may be difficult for WCG to make it so Skgiven can truly speed up the completion of a project and they have higher priorities, but some people will complain. But nothing in the world is perfect, even that slice of cake I had for dinner last night. If it was then the cake would be have lots of health benefits for me and should be recommended as part of everyone's daily diet. Maybe some scientist can help me out and create a project for that

Back to the original topic of this thread:

it's two months later and we're only at 244,000 out of 44,000,000, or 0.5% complete. Are we ever going to get more than a trickle of WUs here and there?

P.S.: Please split off your own thread if you want to have a discussion about project weights/etc. Thanks!

Thank you for the information. I stopped reading the "it's raining dengue" thread a while ago because it was always small batches.