User Renaming in BOINC LODA Project Causes Incorrect Attribution of Mined Programs and Potential Data Fraud

Questions and Answers : Bugs : User Renaming in BOINC LODA Project Causes Incorrect Attribution of Mined Programs and Potential Data Fraud
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Lezhe Gao (ORCiD: 0009-0001-55...

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Message 1139 - Posted: 21 Aug 2026, 8:36:11 UTC
Last modified: 21 Aug 2026, 8:37:49 UTC

I am submitting a bug report regarding the LODA project on the BOINC platform. The issue involves inconsistent and potentially fraudulent attribution of mined program records when a user changes their display name.

Background:
- I previously contributed to the LODA project via BOINC under the username "Lezhe Gao". During that period, I had no "mined programs".
- Later, I switched to using the standalone LODA command-line tool (as described at https://loda-lang.org/install/) and registered with the name "Lezhe Gao (ORCiD: 0009-0001-5572-1994)". With the standalone version, I successfully mined several programs, which were correctly attributed to this new identity.
- Today, I changed my BOINC account username to exactly "Lezhe Gao (ORCiD: 0009-0001-5572-1994)" – the same as my standalone identity.

Observed Result:
After changing the BOINC username, my profile on the LODA BOINC project now shows that I have 3 mined programs. These are almost certainly the programs I mined using the standalone tool, not through BOINC. The BOINC platform appears to have associated my standalone-mined programs with my BOINC account purely based on the matching username string.

Expected Behavior:
The record on https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/home.php should rely solely on BOINC results, instead of external sources.

I kindly request that the development team investigate this issue and apply a fix to prevent name‑based record merging. Please let me know if you need further details or logs to reproduce the behavior.
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Message 1141 - Posted: 2 Sep 2026, 6:04:16 UTC

Not good at all, devs please fix this the soonest!
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Questions and Answers : Bugs : User Renaming in BOINC LODA Project Causes Incorrect Attribution of Mined Programs and Potential Data Fraud

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