I thought slush didn't pay TX fees to his miners!??
Looks like somebody should read the fine-prints. 

Anyway:
Short question to master kano.

Would it make sense to fill in a manual higher difficulty in the worker settings
or is it better to just leave it automatic?

I didn't read anything about manually set the difiiculty and how this would affect my share rate
or the whole pool hashrate.

I only know that a higher difficulty hash is worth more than a lower,
but for a more difficult hash the miner needs more time.

Just like to know if it's worth setting the difficulty a bit higher than the automatic one.

MINE ON AND LET'S GET THIS BLOCK DONE!