adding Sourcefinder (with no WUs) to the whitelist and its effects

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

Here is a quick summary of the events from the last 3 weeks:

July 12:

• poll started about adding Sourcefinder to the whitelist

July 26:

• poll finished, but it will take now 9 days to add the project into the superblock (on August 3)
• I post my concerns about the validity/legitimacy of this and the other 4 polls (see here)

August 3:

• I show people the effects of Sourcefinder now being in the whitelist:
  • free magnitude: 9 users have no competition in their magnitudes at that project
  • see more at the table below
• there are negative voices about this effect and a new whitelist poll is created:
  • SourceFinder with zero workunits for at least 3 weeks. Remove from Whitelist? (vote ends: August 10)
  • if this should be 7 days, a vote at all or other things should be discussed more, e.g. in published proposal about polls

August 4:

• WU status: "ETA is another few weeks unfortunately." (reply by the organization that is "responsible" for Sourcefinder)
• I tweet: repeating the 5 whitelist polls from July (mag zero,...) would have been much less 'PR damage' than what we've now
• reply by Sourcefinder admin here
• a new superblock came today, and strangely the total magnitude even increased, for less users (see here)

August 5:

• after 57h SourceFinder was removed from the whitelist (see here). The ongoing poll to remove it has become useless now.

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• see comments here: it seems: all users with RAC < 10 will be filtered out, so it'll be progressively more unfair.
• btw: the 9 Sourcefinder users were anonymized, b/c it is not their fault: they just got lucky and profit from it

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[Erkan-Yilmaz]

August 4: new SB came, so here a new table (see above):

• total magnitude seems to have risen 400 points, to now: 5771 magnitude
• not 9 users anymore, but 8

I'd actually expect that the total magnitude would be same on both days... strange