Its just nice to see the guy in charge actively posting with users. Ive only been mining for a few weeks but other pools don't know what they are missing.
I agree. Slush is doing good work, and his work is appreciated.
As someone pretty new to mining however, this just highlights to me how volatile this field is. After having had the little I mind stolen at bitlc the last time I tried mining, and now the DDoS and hacking here, and couple that with all the other warnings on these forum, I feel that bitcoins aren't for the weak of heart.
Plus it doesn't help that I used a password at Slush's which I use elsewhere (because it looked like the site wouldn't accept one with a comma, so I reverted to something simple), so now I'm worried about that.