[zombie67]

Across all BOINC we are 17th, both in RAC *AND* in total credits. That's AMAZING! We're bigger than most countries. Think about that.

I look at all other big teams, and they all have their fanaticism in one way or another. Their forums have hundreds of messages per day.

So how is it that 1) we are this high in total credits? and 2) we maintain our rank?

I joined Team MacNN earlier this year. Perhaps we got here when things were different. But that doesn't explain how we're still here. Clearly, we're different.

So...how are we so competitive? Machine ability aside, we're tight without (at least me) knowing why. We rarely speak, yet we gain enough people to offset people leaving.

"I love you man!"...but why?

[reader50]

Our smashing good looks, or perhaps the free swizzle sticks we (supposedly) handed out before I joined?

Possibly because we have been stable over the years. Ars had their cheating scandal on SETI Classic, involving their top crunchers. MacRumors had their cheating scandal on Folding. Many teams try to control which projects their members can crunch in. Other teams (Team Picard) have their forums vanish or move around on them.

My best guess is that we attract good people, we don't mess up, and everyone is welcome. Oh, and I think we do have more interaction than is implied. While we almost never have hundreds of posts per day, we do get read a great deal.

Watch the "Currently Active Users" box at the bottom of the forum. We usually get hundreds of reads per day, when we don't get thousands. Forum persistence is currently 10 minutes, I think. So multiply the average number of readers x 144 to get a rough daily average.

[beadman]

My reason for joining Team MacNN is that the Team provided free, no obligations, some optimized clients. I figured that anyone who handed out something as good as optimized clients with no strings attached definitely deserved my support. I just went over 500K BOINC combined this past week, so hopefully I am giving something back to the team as well.

beadman

[SciFrog]

Another reason is Team MacNN is concentrated on BOINC.

We are far down in Folding these days and pretty much abandonned anything else (RC5...).
In Folding, Team MacAddict and Team Mac OS X are crushing us.

So we are doing good, but not that good if you look at the big picture.
I wish Folding would get rolled into BOINC, but that still looks years away.

[siliconman]

Originally Posted by SciFrog 

Another reason is Team MacNN is concentrated on BOINC.

We are far down in Folding these days and pretty much abandonned anything else (RC5...).
In Folding, Team MacAddict and Team Mac OS X are crushing us.

Don't count us out in RC5... we're neck and neck with some pretty big teams, we've got half the number of members of slashdot.