Maybe there is no need for 5 and 10 year badges, just simply a need to really have a million devices in the world. One legitimate concern could be that there is no impetus to increase the number of world devices when the globe already appears to have over 1,000,000 devices.

Interesting perspective :)

If one is at the left, necessarily one cannot be at the right. Not at the same time anyway. If it comes down to a vote, I vote for the status quo: leave the existing mechanism in place with all its quirks and idiosyncrasies. And I say that not so much because there is no good to be had in having the capability to effect the delete/merge of deviceNames, but more because I don't want to distract from what I see as the essential purpose of the grid. The contention that the said capability is trivial or easy to implement -- does not justify an automatic go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the sought capability. In the grand scheme of the grid, the sought capability pales in comparison, and even if it doesn't, I'd rather crunch WUs or do something productive than bother with having or not having the sought capability -- because I can't be at the left and be at the right at the same time.
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snip: "... so doing the same on the Device Manager page would not only be easy, but would be consistent."

My device manager page also hides the old / in-actives with the 7/14 day filter default at top [duh], for total consistency, but *does* show new devices immediately. How else could you associate a new device quickly to a different than the default profile. (the posts that would otherwise follow "I have created a new host, but I cant see it").

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hmmm, you repeat what I said. Your post gave the impression that the device manager did not have a filter, and *nobody* is debating that zero result devices have no place anywhere. They serve no purpose, not even the "returned results audit trail argument" (which is I think to be an overtaken figment of someone's long passed away imagination.. don't know whoever gave that explanation first). Really, nearing 900 million results validated, statistics by big numbers of CPU's and OSses is what's of interest to the scientists to compensate for any fractional differentials [like city based thermometers]. Hard hits of interest are always rerun... science is verification and reproducibility, ad nauseam.

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