Quote from: spectra on August 08, 2011, 06:53:09 PM

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I think it is more just considered being a dick.

Hm... I think I get your point... But isn't the possibility of pool hopping open to anyone? I've been watching people worried in puting counter-measures in place to make pool hopping more difficult. Most of these measures end up harming the occasional miner (PPLNS, scores), or preventing new pools to get in the scene (PPS only works if the pool have some BTC in reserve)... I think that, if the possibility is open to anyone to exploit, why not leave it be. I can't see a pool hopper as a "dick", as you put it (or as a cheater, for that matters).

Because if everyone in the pool is a pool hopper, the pool will die the first time it has bad luck. If every miner will only mine when the payout is more than he could get from a PPS pool, as soon as the payout is expected to be less, nobody will mine and the pool will die.