When I look at a project, my first question is, "How will my expenditure of electricity and computer resources on this project be useful to humanity or advance science in a way that a practical, useful outcome is likely?"  The easiest ones for me to put my finger on and know with relative surety that my efforts aren't for badges is the medical field.  My electricity and computer resources helping researchers understand how disease works, or proteins fold, or how a new or old drug will react with a virus is easy for me to grasp and I can see how I am making a positive impact.  Some of the projects I read about just leave me with the question "What's the point?"
 
What do you look for when reading project summaries?  What do you consider when deciding where to put your efforts?

I'm doing WCG.  That's enough for my one FX-8350.  I was just wondering what other people consider when choosing projects.

I had a banner from there for a couple months but it seems to be broken.  One day it just quit working, so I deleted it from my signature here.

Its been down for me for a few weeks.  I get this at the banner setup.

 
 

Nah, if they've changed something so that Firefox or Brave won't work, I'll do without.  Thanks though.  

Got it figured out.  Apparently I broke it.  I'm guessing it went down, I reentered my information trying to fix it and fat fingered my CPID.

To answer the original post, i look for projects that i view as (potentially) beneficial for mankind. That usually falls under bio/medical projects for me too. I also have a couple other pet projects where i find the science interesting as well.

Team challenges also draw my interest, as it’s fun to work towards a common goal and a chance to rib each other at times, all in good fun of course. It’s also a chance to see/drool over hardware and points that blows my boxes out of the water.

Badges are fun to works towards too, but if I don’t “connect” with the science behind the project then i won’t stick with it for long.

RNA, drug testing DrugDiscovery@Home are two of the Hardest Projects to get Tasks.
Evolution over on YoYo http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/server_status.php can also be hard to get.

Not enough Work IMO, but DrugDiscovery@Home  is down and has been for a while now.

We all have our pet projects, I think you need to choose what is important to you.
Everyone here pays for their own electricity and owns their own rigs...
 
Keep it fun, is all I ask.... Because we all enjoy Crunching together...as a Team.