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".