I'm going to put my vote in for this idea. However, I'm most interested in stratifying based on overall quality of project execution. That is, projects are put into tiers based on things like work unit availability, public presentation of the website, open availability of results (where appropriate), demonstrated security and integrity in rewarding of credits, and so on. This would hold projects accountable to present themselves professionally, and would be beneficial for everyone involved. If there's just an on/off switch for being on the whitelist or not, projects don't have motivation to improve beyond the basic requirements like workunit availability.
We can talk about stratifying based on science too, though. I like the idea of mechanisms being in place for the Gridcoin community to decide what science it finds most important. This would help realize the exciting concept of computational science driven by the goals and interests of a decentralized international community [my catchphrase.. ;) ]
Check out the proposed whitelisting/greylist process. Let's build on that. The initial implementation is already up for a vote!
https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/194
Just saw that today! It's a great start. I'm going to try to find some time to chew on the technical details and see if there are any refinements/questions I want to pose. But at the face of it, I agree it looks good enough to vote in right now. We can see how it fares in practice and then decide how we might want to build on it.
That is a very good point. Project execution is also of critical importance. We can't have crooked admins for example trying to pump up their own stats or the stats of their buddies.
There are certainly many different criteria that need to be considered for any type of tier or ranking system.
thinking to hard but assuming things are so basic and strait forward makes me say DO SOME RESEARCH you are way to new and do not know how things function down to even a basic VPS server / client level model let alone boinc or the Gridcoin nerual network...