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RE: [Gridcoin Poll] What is your opinion on the mandatory team Gridcoin requirement?
CM, have you done the math on what percentage of active Boinc users are on teams? Majority may not be on any particular team.
According to boincstats, 78.39% of BOINC users are not in teams:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/project/detail/user
Ah, but is that overall BOINC stats? Or is it active BOINC users only?
BOINCstats also states that 8.38% of all registered BOINC users are currently active, the % of users in teams may be higher for active BOINC users (who we're targeting).
If existing Boincers want to join Gridcoin there is nothing stopping them from making another Boinc acc and joining team Gridcoin, without leaving their existing team. The existing figures from Boincstats illustrate that most Boinc participants are not in teams anyways and being on top of the Boinc leader-boards is great advertising for us anyhow. So removing the team requirement might be more trouble than it's worth at this point.
This is an informal opinion poll with no immediate mandate for action to be taken.
Yes, users from other teams could create a separate account to earn Gridcoin with, but 10 years of team loyalty discourage this practice. Imagine endorsements from linustechtips or teksyndicate because their teams could begin earning gridcoin, imagine a dramatic reduction in censorship across multiple websites.
The figures from Boincstats do not break the stats down enough - users in a team includes both active and inactive users, there's only 8.38% active BOINC users, it's highly plausible that these active users have a higher percentage of team membership.
I voted to remove the mandatory team requirement. In my opinion, benefits of removing it far outweigh disadvantages. Our team is no.1 for almost a year now, we are hitting diminishing returns on that and it's time to move on. If we don't recruit more BOINC users, other cryptos will.
DrugDiscovery@home is already planning to reward their crunchers with Ethereum based tokens, check this thread here: http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/private/boinc_projects/2016-October/011862.html