I agree about kano being best, but I disagree about this one.  I think the current payout method is actually a disadvantage for miners, since the payouts are actually taking up valuable (at current transaction fees) space in the blocks.  I hope the pool soon switches to a method that pays out smaller payments every X blocks instead of every block and groups the payments.
This would also greatly benefit the users earning the small payments as the transaction fees to spend them can be quite high!