Best advice I can offer you is to ignore this kind of thing.  Any time anyone might seem to be the least bit supportive of this pool, they're immediately considered either paid shills or idiots.  

This pool has attracted a level of hate that is puts it into some pretty unpleasant company (think BFL).  When this pool first started, it did so as many others have in the past: with an announcement and some marketing to try and draw miners and their hashing power to it.  Unfortunately for the pool, while trying to gain publicity, they garnered a lot of negative attention because their most vocal spokesmen were patent idiots.  Rather than speak out against these voices, the pool remained silent, seemingly encouraging the behavior.  It compounded and things went to hell in a hand basket.  Throw in some questionable promotions, payout promises that could not possibly be maintained and you can see why questions were raised.

If you're happy with the pool and like what it has to offer you, then by all means, keep your hashing there.  I don't agree with the choice, but I do agree with freedom of choice.