"The service is running a pool for YOU to mine at and auto exchange your coins to BTC. Find ONE POOL that offers to pay you any outstanding balances if something goes wrong there. I bet you will not find ONE.

The fees are comparable to any pool, get over yourself."

The excessive amount of downtime at Hashcows certainly wasn't comparable to most pools.

How many of the other pools have ever allowed all/virtually all of it's users' balances to be all withdrawn to one single rogue address of a hacker? Certainly not comparable to most pools.

If you feel like the comparable fees charged by Hashcows has also equaled the quality of service provided by most other pools, I guess you have had lots of rotten luck in the past with where you have chosen to spend your hashpower at. I am to blame in part for this, though. I knew from past experiences with the site that they are down a large percentage of the time. I chalked that up to them still being fairly new. However, I was also looking for the least hands-on way to mine and convert to BTC and figured HC had moved past the growing pains, so I came back last week hoping things had changed. This was clearly a mistake on my part, as the downtime was still very high and at the end of the week all of my coins not paid into Hashcow's fees was then stolen from me due to their lack of security.

No, I have not seen any other pool guaranteeing the safety of users' balances. If any of them ever lose all of my coins from their own lack of security (completely independent of my own personal computer being hacked) and at the same time allow this exact thing to happen to most/all of  it's userbase, I will call them out on it too. I will also call out anyone telling people not to complain and that the site owners are doing a great job.

Get over myself? I think my response was pretty fair to whoever said that no one should be complaining and that the HC team is doing a great job. They clearly are not.