Quote from: CubedRoot on June 28, 2011, 04:28:41 PM

Quote from: Moussekateer on June 28, 2011, 12:11:45 AM

Quote from: CubedRoot on June 27, 2011, 10:58:28 PM

Use adblock, and you wont see any ads

I never knew the account page or any other page had ads on it

And why would you do that? If you don't donate to the server the least you can do is allow a small ad on the page to help with server costs. There are times to use adblock but this isn't one of those times.

I refuse to look at ads in my browser. Sorry. Especially when I am donating 2.5% to the pool, I despise the idea of having to look at ads.
I run adblock on every single site I visit. There are many many other ways a site can make money other than plastering the page with ads.

Same here .. I don't like cookies, trojans and all the other crap that comes along with them if you do a search and hit the wrong site. I allow ads when I browse using other browsers [specifically locked down for security]. Some sites rely on ad revenue to supplement other income, often to keep prices low for some service or other. If that is the case, a site should note this so that people can choose to let them through [most likely a site that you frequent like a pool website, is not going to have off ads for generic Viagra or find your perfect mate .... more likely related, at least loosely, to what the site is about .. for a pool, hardware manufacturers, stores, technical service, etc would make sense .. if it is just click based banners based on all of your browsing, then forget it, nobody wants to see it for any reason on a pool website].

As far as users that do not donate to the pool ... shame on you! Get a sense of ethics, morale values and be a good patron. Come on. Honestly, I don't know why any pool allows free other than for a trial period. It seems the worst offenders are those mining 5+GH/s from what I have read on various pool threads, although I am sure that there are some users at all hash rate levels opting for 0% [as a rule, not an exception] out of greed and feel no shame and have no honor. I urged Eleuthria not to allow such abuse [frankly, I believe, the minimum should be the estimated amount required to break even on costs of allowing the user to participate in the pool ... I am guessing 1%, depending upon fees and of course the price of BTC and if they are sold to fund operations]. The beauty of a percentage donation is that small rewards mean small donations and large rewards means larger donations, but "feels" the same to all users.

Eleuthria, I think you should move or remove the cumulative donations paid from the main account page since I am guessing that a some people see that number get larger, they begin to feel they have "paid enough" and start lowering their donation. It is all psychological, but seeing a large donation sitting there when after several difficulty increases a miner makes nowhere near that amount in a day, week or longer, then I think that it will affect perception of individuals as opposed to "I earned 2.23 BTC today and received 2.17 BTC in payout today". The latter seems pretty insignificant as opposed to seeing total donations of 31.22 BTC.

Am I picking on the large greedy 0% power miners again? Grin