Excellent read with some great info.

TL;DR I will continue to crunch the projects which I support regardless of their immediate position on the Gridcoin white-list as the GRC dev team continues to improve the relationship, both physical and coding, between Gridcoin and BOINC.

I agree that availability of WU should be considered when deciding to whitelist/delist a poll.

Regarding your position:

There is fine line between a project which intentionally limits and distributes WU and one which simply does not have WU or the ability to maintain itself. For me, the project itself and its development and admin activity is a bigger factor than the WU structure of the project.

SZTAKI, for example, rewards users which have been working the project for an extended length of time. I think that is fine. It encourages new users to join the project for the project's stake instead of just for the cobblestone. Those who have been dedicated to the project do in fact get a lot of work for SZTAKI. I do not think their model is perfect, but I am not certain that it deserves removal from GRC whitelist.

I think the root issues regarding projects and white-listing and distribution lie with the DPoR protocol of gridcoin, so I will probably abstain from the SZTAKI vote. The dev team is working on the relationship between Gridcoin and BOINC (right now by working on superblocks), so I feel like in the next 6 months to a year this will be a non-issue.

In terms of gaming the system: I haven't thought this all the way through, so please, guide me, but if someone wanted to increase their mag on a project which limits WU, wouldn't they need to have been working that project before they limited WU?