Folding Forum

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

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.

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.