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http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_graph.php?pr=bo&id=883302

I noticed the above person on the boincstats site in the team. How does someone lose that much credit, IN ONE DAY?
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Someone explained it to me as relating to adding new hosts to your farm, it causes BoincStats to give you a new cross project identifier and it takes a few days for everything to normalize. Hence huge drops and then corresponding huge gains a couple of days later.
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[JerWA]

Yep. Basically it's BOINCStats, rarely BOINC itself, "revoking" the credits. Most times it's because a host is shuffling around between multiple instances of the same person. This happens because, as mentioned, you get new CPIDs from every project and every host. BOINC synchronizes them if you have the same machine on multiple projects (hence why I recommended in another thread that you have at least one machine that you run through every project you add. Not all the time, or even on a regular basis, but for every new project).

The reason it happens on BOINCStats is that they go a step further and attempt to identify all of your user accounts. They first try to use CPID, and then check email address and user name. The user name part is a last ditch effort to associate stats with an account, and with common names it means tons of systems bounce into that account, and then when CPIDs synch BOINCStats moves the host to it's true owner.

There's an account on BOINCStats with the name Smith or something similar, and they've gained and lost tens of millions of credits from those "lost" hosts being put into that account and then later moved out when IDs synch.

Edit: After looking at that accounts host stats, it appears they've got some problem going on causing the client to be unrecognized and a new ID issued. They've got lots of copies of the same computer (it's unlikely to be multiple computers, because they are not all getting credits/day). What he needs to do is go to the project(s) that show all those hosts and merge records. I bet it'd solve the problem.
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