cent 1: you say its possible to get three times as much as with other pools... and you also say that all people who actually believes this are dumb.
cent 2: by using referrals you encourage your users to spam the forums (as they get more if they do that: ok, just see my sig to see, that i also use referealls)
just my two cents
i don't use products which are getting to much ads. that counts for real world and also for bitcoin.. e.g. tradehill: i will NEVER use them.. just way to much spam (not only from them, just people who wants that referrer bonus).
^^ i am NOT saysing tradehill or tm are scam, but they did all they could to not beeing used by me