As a question for how pools 'should' run. I have 2 validators. Right now each pay out separately, so votes for one are 1/44k share and other is 1/40k share.
I am playing around with allow configuration to treat them just as one big pool. So everyone gets 1/84k share of 2x the reward.
At the moment, it doesn't matter, but if i were to start say 'pool3' (I'm not), I want to encourage votes for it, so it would make sense to allow those voters to still receive a share, even though its not forging yet.
Downside is, if I open up a new pool, those who already have votes on a 'full' one have no incentive to balance their votes to the lower one. And balancing votes is a good thing.
Thoughts? Pros and cons to each.. just not sure what makes most sense.
Good question about whether to treat them as two separate pools or a combined pool. I think I'd tend to lean towards the combined pool--as long as you don't require users to shuffle around votes between often. That way, say if you did start pool #3, all the new people could join into #3, but people that already voted on #1 or #2 wouldn't need to burn transaction fees to rebalance their votes across all three.