You know what's even more irritating than tealover's unrelenting wild accusations?
The truckload of people who cannot resist the urge to tell him to go away or rehash the story of his low trust score.
STOP IT!!
If I don't like tealover's posts, I can easily ignore them with a single button click.. But your constant responses (that contain no new information or insights whatsoever) are distracting and not as easily ignored. Unless I start to ignore you too, but then I might miss something interesting you post later on.
Few people care about tealover's accusations or his trust rating, we are here to discuss middlepool and stay up to date on the pool status - information that should be present on the pool's website, not hidden in this 230+ page announcement thread.
Moreover : at least tealover brings something fresh to the table (ad nauseum) : a disparant voice. A nice counterweight to the fanboyism I've been witnessing the last 100+ pages.
Of course the operator could be taking more than 3%. If he's representative of the general population, chances are, he is. The thing is, right now there's no way to know either way so we can only weigh our payout against other pools.
Once a similar pool comes along that is more open about what is happening I think a lot of people will seriously consider it. The lack (or plain absence) of information is the only thing I don't like about middlecoin, but it's a big thing for me.
I like a bit of critical thinking about what is happening to our hashpower and I do think the pool operator should be *a lot* more forthcoming with information about the status of the pool.
I've invested a lot of money into my hashpower, mostly based on middlecoin's operation so I get nervous when anything out of the ordinary happens that affects payouts.
For example I've yet to read *any* kind of response to the really low payout last Saturday night that has affected some miners, but not all. Why not all? I can live with the occasional low payout, but when I see that miners with a similar hashrate and uptime as myself received a more or less regular payout and I'm only getting 50%-ish and even less than straight LTC mining, I want to know what's up. Or down
I couldn't care less about the super-duper-secret sauce the operator is using to generate our BTC. I suspect the main reason for all the secrecy is to avoid any kind of accountability, the constant second guessing by the miners and the endless support questions the information would cause.
However, I do want to be informed about anything out of the ordinary going on with the pool.
I'm paying 3% for the ease-of-mind and not having to bother following up my mining choices myself.
But when I have to start taking screenshots of coingeek's graphs and measuring pixels (to try to decipher what's so different from other people's graphs), or keep following this thread to make sure I'm not missing anything important (just to find out that I have to choose between a server with frequent disconnects or one that mines straight LTC without the necessary information to make an informed decision), well, then I get peeved.
Hmm.. Now I feel so much better
