Let's calm down, guys. This is nothing to fight over. OmegaNemesis28, if you give the pool a few days I'm sure you will like it. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.

If you mined only the last 24 hours then the payout looks bad because of the combination of bad luck right now (variance) and a 10 hour delay between doing work and getting paid.

Over 7000 people mine at Bitminter every day. They wouldn't do that if we paid out less than 50% of other pools.

There is some info on the payouts here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg2769824#msg2769824
If you really want to understand it then look through Organofcorti's analysis: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/05/131-bitminter-and-luck.html