Quote from: vs3 on May 21, 2013, 08:22:53 PM

Quote from: Lucko on May 21, 2013, 08:02:19 PM

Quote from: digital on May 21, 2013, 07:39:08 PM

You read way too much into his answer. His answer is the correct answer. It may be too technical, but it is what it is. What he is trying to say is that because of the way Slush's pool works, your payouts can vary tremendously, especially with a slow miner.

I really didn't see him insulting you in his post, it looked to me like he was legitimately trying to help.

Yes the answer was correct but he used an attitude so he started defence mechanism in him... That didn't help him to understand it.

Neither harm nor insult was meant in my previous post. Apologies to those that got offended.

The issue is that scoring is not explained in a "for newbies" language anywhere, and on top of that the web site reports "shares" which confuses people to think that "number of shares" matters. Which it doesn't - it is the score that does, but your score is not published on the stats. And what's even worse - the pool' home page speaks about "shares" and has a the formula, but everything is in a rather vague form - neither explained properly and technically correctly, nor simplified enough, and then it forwards you to a post on the forum with even more technical language ... I can understand why someone can get completely confused.

Then people ask on the forum, and we keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over - this very question has been discussed several times in the last 10-15 pages alone. But people are impatient and won't go through more than a few pages, and when they don't find the answer quickly they ask on the forum.
And we repeat that stuff over and over again (which may have to do with the "attitude" factor). Unfortunately the Search option is not really an option for beginners either - knowing what to search for is half of the answer.

If Slush is willing to put a Wiki page about those questions - I'd be glad to contribute and add content. I can probably add also a few simple charts to illustrate the scoring - as they say "picture is worth a thousand words".

If I was too sensitive I apologize I detected a note of sarcasm that might not have been intended.
I've read most of the other posts and just got a big head ache.
here are my current numbers
96 4.6975 2 minutes shares, score, time since last share
12695448 53 0.00006708 total shares, my submitted shares and my reward for the round from last round. on the statistic page there is nothing about score or total score just shares and total shares and reward. that might be the cause of my confusion. the part that insulted me was the capital letters, bold print and the assumption that I couldn't be asking this question if I had read that stuff already. Again the time is gone that only engineers and math types are mining for coins, I would challenge you to keep up with me in a conversation about my field as well so we are not starting from the same knowledge base and the posts were all greek to me. Also there are over 400 pages in this thread alone, I have a job and a life so it is not a factor of being lazy it is a factor of time and knowledge. I just now know enough to be able to ask a question and this is why I'm starting small without any new investment. Hell i'm still making more than I'm paying out in electric so i'm at a profit.