if you didn't hold in your pockets those "scammed" btc taken from those vicious pool-hoppers, but instead distributed them between "fair" users rectroactively after some period of time, say 10 days, probably more people would accept that MaxPPS thing...
I have to agree with this. This is something I never quite wrapped my head around. I like the MaxPPS model except for that one thing.
Example:
I pool hopper starts mining. Then leaves.
A block is found. He joins back... another block is found. This will fill his "value."
If the pool hopper leaves the pool at this point or changes Bitcoin addresses, he will never be able to collect this "value."
So where does this value go? Who eventually gets this built up value if it is never collected?
I agree with jkminkov that after a period of time (10 - 20 days) the unclaimed value should be redistributed to the rest of other miners that
are active.
This should be a non-issue: since pool hopping is ineffective, nobody will do it.