Quote from: Ulysses on May 31, 2011, 11:10:59 PM

You can't be sure you are getting more from 0% fee pool than from 2% fee pool without comparison on a lengthy intervals. The pool operator can skim blocks (there is no free launch

, pool operator can implement protocol inefficiently and give identical getworks to multiple clients, pool can get a lot of invalid blocks due to bad connection to bitcoin network, pool can get a lot of stale shares.

Unfortunately, to this time nobody did a proper comparison of pools according to their published statistic, so you can only use your intuition to choose one.

This is a good point as well, and something I have considered to a great extent. It's another reason I like the larger pools. Less variance means you can more easily compare daily BTC rates.