Project: 6076 (Run 0, Clone 18, Gen 28) - No Bonus - Why ?

[Mactin]

My first FredNotFred WU, Project: 6076 (Run 0, Clone 18, Gen 28), got no Bonus.
It looks I was credited 481 points for it.
Why ?

Now I'm crunching thru a -bigadv WU, Project: 2683 (Run 5, Clone 6, Gen 72), will it get a Bonus ?

[bruce]

Are you using a passkey? Have you completed 10 a2/a3 WUs using that passkey & UserName with at least an 80% success rate?

Bonus points are awarded at the time the WU is credited, so if you didn't get a bonus, don't expect it to show up later.

[Mactin]

Yes, yes and yes.
I have complete successfully dozens..
A couple of hours latter, I got a bonus with p6054-0-155-9 with the same username and passkey.

If I had no passkey would I be issued a -bigadv ?

[bruce]

I don't believe that the passkey is used to restrict assignments so without a passkey, you can be issued -bigadv but you wouldn't get a bonus.

Did your passkey change? Was the WU assigned while the Assignment Server was having its recent problems?

[kasson]

For that particular WU, no passkey was provided by your client upon assign. Your other returns around that time did have a passkey and were given the bonus. The client needs to provide the passkey at the time of assign as well as WU return.

[Mactin]

Ok, thank you, it explain what appened.

Sinse this was my first WU with FredNotFred, it was assigned by the generic Username provided by FredNotFred.
I reconfigured and restarted without killing the WU, I taugh this was the ethical thing to do.
It returned with My username and passkey.

Not dumping the WU, penalized my points, but science won in the end. That's life ! No regrets.