The pool hoppers I am talking about are the people who jump on the instant we hit a block with hash power equal the the amount of the rest of the pool combined, stay till 30% variance and leave. They always leave at exactly 30% and always jump on as soon as a block is hit. Those are the ones who we have stopped, and some have noticed and removed us from their bot list, others still continue to do it because it's all run by bots and they never actually check to see if they are making anything or not.
People who only mine part time are not considered pool hoppers. Just the ones like I described.
Do you filter out the hoppers that jump at that 30%, or also the ones that stay a bit longer?. In other words how and by what rules do you determan when a hopper is a hopper.
And how much are they being "taxed"? Maby its an idea to show it in the stats how much they have been taxed for.? Could work as a warning to keep them away.
(sorry for my English, its a bit rusty).
It's pretty easy to tell who the hoppers are. As soon as we hit a block and suddenly we have 2-3 people jump in with big hash rates, then leave the instant we hit 30%, pretty clear it's a hopper. The script doesn't try to autodetect hoppers and add them, we watch the pool close and when we see a pattern of it, then they are manually added to the script. For people who jump on later, or stay longer, they don't get listed. Since they always leave at 30%, they get a 70% tax which is given to the rest of the people mining automatically. If a hopper from the list jumps on, every 2 minutes they get taxed so that if we hit a fast block they don't take all the reward. The script also keeps track of how much they have mined so we don't take more than 70% of their total amount mined.