sorry but i refuse to pay a pool for me running my machines on it, 5 machines are not cheap to run, then to find out not only have i wasted my time but the pool is trying to charge me over 200 WDC as well. Thats not cool. We all had our losses from this and i am surely not paying the pool for their losses. I expect a pool to keep me safe when mining there not charge me when the pool takes a loss. take it from all the donations or fees but dont charge the miners so we end up losing on multiple levels.
I have a -229 balance too. The thing is that we all lost money here...and we were paid for coins that no longer exist! Sorry about your losses..but that is a risk we all take. Even if you were mining solo your coins would be no good! This pool sticks to the estimates quite accurately..so I can vouch for them as a very honest people.