Apparently a lot of people think that's the right way to do it, but I think it's the wrong approach. IMO projects people think are most useful to society should have greater reward to encourage work on those. There's a reason most BOINC users are working on projects like SETI, WCG, and Rosetta instead of Amicable Numbers and YAFU. They believe in the usefulness of the former and not the latter. Argh... it really bothers me how the rewards are set up. We should vote on which projects are most important and calculate a mag multiplier based on number of votes each project receives.
RE: Time for a change