It's funny how everyone loves the pool when you're hitting low variance blocks, but when you get stuck on a difficult one everyone jumps ship and start to yell scam.  I've been accused of so many things since starting this pool.  I was accused of faking the pool being hacked in which we lost some eth, but everyone still got paid in full from my own pocket.  I've been accused of having fake accounts to steal eth from others.  I've even been accused of redirecting the hash power to other pools to steal it for myself and manually increasing the variance on the website to look like everyone is still mining on it. 

And we have the very small core group of haters that go to every forum, every place they can post a review and call the pool a scam.  Apparently they have nothing better to do.  But the pool is still there, people are still mining and still getting paid. 
 
Yes, the crypto world is the wild west, there are no rules it seems because it's so anonymous.  But not everyone is dishonest and a thief.  I run a legit pool.  If you think it's a scam, just be like everyone else and mine on a big pool.