Luke: I'm interested as to why you chose to do the 'half implementation' now? I'm only running a small-ish miner at the moment, and it looks like I've lost maybe 0.75BTC total compared to what I would've expected on the last few blocks - nothing that's going to break the bank, obviously, but a few beers' worth that I would've liked to see! I can quite see that someone with more power pointed at your pool would be less than pleased about having to wait for the retroactive credit at an uncertain time in the future.
I don't want to sound too critical - I'm well aware you're putting in a lot of effort that benefits us all - but I do think an all or nothing implementation would've been fairer.
Yeah, exactly, the only way to regain those lost earnings is to continue slaving away indefinitely, you put it well.
Playing catch up.
Having no warning that earnings would get crippled yesterday was definitely a low blow.
Never being able to do better than average even if I stick it out makes this a humble pool to be in.
I want the possibility of doing better than average, of getting lucky and having miners deliver higher rewards.