eleuthria, I agree with one of the previous posters and think that all the negativity in here is coming from the pool hoppers (who were walking off with 30% more than they deserved, the cost of which us legit users paid for)
Don't sweat it, know you did the right thing for the legit loyal users who keep their cards pointed at you 24/7 (except during blackouts, etc)
I applaud the delay as well!
I call Bull Pucks on you.
It would be trivial for me or Eleuthria to prove that I, too, keep my miners pointed at BTCGuild "24/7" for my meager 1.2 Gh/s contribution.
The 42 Gh/s I referred to was an estimate, week of July 3 -9, for the "small industrial scale" miners in the data center hotel where I work. Many people have co-located dedicated mining rigs in several co-lo facilities in this building; some of them keep casually in touch, and that group jokingly refers to itself as "Agjajag" (if you know your HGTTU references). The entire group uses BTCguild as their primary server.
As far as pool-hopping, I have read 67 posts today going back two weeks on this thread, and so I am a bit familiar with the arguments.
The math does not convince me on either side of the pool-hopping arguments. BOTH sides ignore the stochasticity inherent in the block-finding behaviors. (!!!)
I applaud Eleuthria for choosing a solution, though, and implementing it; apparently he has already seen an "improvement".