I vote every new pool operator should send 25 btc to a reputable member in escorw.
If they will not, F them. nobody should send hash to potentialis malicious pool operaters!
Like Nexious, I tried to give them bennefit of the doubt but even public know people run off with blocks!

Otherwise we have a few pools we can trust and if you want to support ''small'' pools kano/ck pool is the place to go.