SubTeams/ multiusers

[DigitalFlow]

I am a member of a decent size gaming community that itself has smaller gamer communitys "squads" in it.

I want to create a team for our community - I understand how to do this..
I also wanted to create "subteams" so that each "squad" would use a single user name so we could track our overall community contribution, but also per squad. However I notice refrences to "cheating" in several places....

I am thinking this is cheating refered to any promotional awards given out?

Bottom line i want to know if we are allowed to use 1 username for say - 30 people. as a "squad"
Overall the community I am going to try to get involved is 2000-3000 users broken into "squads" with 10-50 members.

Hope I am makin this clear.. Just want to know the rules. and repercussions..

also sorry if this is in the wrong spot feel free to move it.

Thanks in advance

[jrweiss]

Yes, it it completely acceptable to have many people Folding under one user name.

"Cheating" is usually a person surreptitiously installing F@H with his own user name and team onto someone's computer without permission. Sometimes this is done by packaging F@H with an installer of a game or crack.

As long as the participants/computer owners willingly and knowingly install F@H, there is no problem.

[bruce]

Stanford doesn't have a structure for sub-teams, but whatever you do with the data that they do maintain is acceptable. Promotional Awards are a separate matter. Stanford doesn't operate promotions or serve as judges for them. You'll have to check with the contest organizers.