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Mary Zaher Norton
Cruncher Joined: Dec 6, 2005 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Good day to you! I have been waiting and watching trying to work my way to getting a Diamond Badge for Mapping Cancer Markers but it still hasn't happened. Does anyone know how many points need to be generated for this to happen? My current stats for Mapping Cancer Markers are Points Generated 5,711,891 Results Returned 6,925 Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 4:132:04:08:44
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7685 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The badges are granted for time, so when your time reaches 5 years of MCM work you will get a 5 year Diamond badge.
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Sgt. Joe
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Mary Zaher Norton
Cruncher Joined: Dec 6, 2005 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ok and tyvm Joe! I thought the next badge was for 4 years. So I'm getting close.
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zxcvbob
Cruncher United States Joined: Jan 12, 2006 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Any new Diamond badges past 20 years? (I'm coming up on 40 years and the badge still says 20 instead of 30)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Project Badges: There are 11 levels of badges awarded based upon how much computing time a member has contributed to each project:
Bronze - 14 days Silver - 45 days Gold - 90 days Ruby - 180 days Emerald - 1 year Sapphire - 2 years Diamond - recognizing higher levels of contribution of 5, 10, 20, 50 and up to 100 years of computing time |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
At the top right of this browser page there is [ FORUMS - HELP - SETTINGS ].
----------------------------------------"HELP" should be able to get you to just about any general information you need. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 15, 2020 11:53:14 AM] |
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zxcvbob
Cruncher United States Joined: Jan 12, 2006 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Project Badges: There are 11 levels of badges awarded based upon how much computing time a member has contributed to each project: Bronze - 14 days Silver - 45 days Gold - 90 days Ruby - 180 days Emerald - 1 year Sapphire - 2 years Diamond - recognizing higher levels of contribution of 5, 10, 20, 50 and up to 100 years of computing time Thanks, I thought Diamond was awarded for every 10 years.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
With today's faster, multicore CPUs, there have been many suggestions for badges beyond 100 years. I think badges in 100 year increments would be appropriate.
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DrMason
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Post Count: 153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't know how much retrofitting would be necessary to make new badges, but I like the idea. I imagine producing the art for the new badges isn't the main roadblock, because it's just changing the numbers. Maybe there's some other reason. But if they do decide to redo it someday, I kinda like the idea of adding 250, 500, 750, and 1k.
----------------------------------------I kind of wish there was some indicator for # of results. But that's probably asking for too much   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I would suggest that at 500 years, they should either change the shape or background (platinum) to signify an enhanced contribution. These suggestions have never gained much traction over the years due to the staff being overloaded on other things. I would also suggest that the badge creation could be outsourced to either an eager member or intern that would contribute it back to WCG. I would think there wouldn't be many security concerns with badges. Then all WCG has to do is change the code to enable the new badges which could be done at the next project launch when they are changing the code anyway.
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