User 'eLPeCKo' profiled August 5 as the user of the day on the main page hasn't returned work since April 2017. To put into perspective the flagship phones included the Galaxy S8 .. LG V20 .. OnePlus 3T.

Kind of embarrassing profiling someone who hasn't returned a unit in over 5 years.

User '[C@B] ljfc2001' profiled August 6 - stuck with it for 4 months, not seen since April 2017. It's a sure bet he'll never know he was acknowledged.

Thanks for doing this. Should help a bit, but I noticed today that '[SG] LouisCyphre' hasn't submitted work since Oct 2015. Somehow the code needs further revision to select from a pool of currently active volunteers. I'm thinking 6 months.

I'm not a coder but perhaps someone here could suggest a code revision.

I've dug a bit into this since I last posted about this over at MW and an important thing I've realised is that user (contributor) ≠ profile

A profile needs to be created by a user before they can be verified by an admin and become eligible for UOTD. A vast majority of folks have not created a profile, even if they do know where to do this (for instance, using the user search function, of the 89 users who have signed up since July 1st, only one user has created their profile). You, arcturus (user=3687), for instance, do not have a profile and cannot be UOTD unless you create one.

I've created a profile today and I reckon once valterc approves this, I'll be UOTD.

If there are no verified profiles that meet the minimum criterion for UOTD (i.e., average credit > 1 and hasn't been a UOTD previously), a random profile from a pool of the oldest 100 UOTDs is selected to be the UOTD (again). I suspect this is the reason you're seeing old, inactive UOTDs in many projects as the pool of fresh profiles is very small, if not depleted. The reselection criterion does not check for average credit and I do not see a "safe" way (i.e., via project config) to change this unless this line in the BOINC server code is changed and/ or this is enhanced to give the project owner better control of the criteria via project config:

$inner = "SELECT profile.userid FROM profile,user WHERE profile.userid=user.id AND verification=1 AND uotd_time>0 ORDER BY uotd_time ASC LIMIT 100";

$inner = "SELECT profile.userid FROM profile,user WHERE profile.userid=user.id AND verification=1 AND uotd_time>0 AND expavg_credit>1 ORDER BY uotd_time ASC LIMIT 100";

Yep.

Profiled user of the day 'STMahlberg' has no submitted work since Feb 2017.

User of the day 'scoobot' has no work submitted since July of 2017.

A new winner, user 'AriZonaMoon' has no work submitted since July 2014.

User of the day 'Carl' has no work submitted since April of 2015.

Hoping he hasn't given up checking lol.

User of the day 'jesusnt' has no work submitted since March of 2017.

User of the day 'ceradini' has no work submitted since Oct of 2015. Close to the record for longest no show.

User of the day '[SG] LouisCyphre' has no work submitted since Oct of 2015, adding to the list of long defunct users and mentioned twice in the past 6 months.

User of the day '[SG] LouisCyphre' has no work submitted since Oct of 2015, adding to the list of long defunct users and mentioned twice in the past 6 months.