Wait: Let me get this straight, RileyN:

You believe that everyone (or most) people who are complaining are lying about their balances?

So... does that mean the people who DID have "moderate" balances AREN'T complaining?
Or that there wasn't anyone on 50btc at the time the payout stops happened with large balances?

Does this mean the high rollers DID get paid by 50btc, and therefore aren't speaking up here, and that 50btc is only shirking small-balance miners?
Well *that's* mind boggling.

Either they:

1) aren't paying anyone, and that includes high and low balance miners,
2) OR they paid off their 'big players' but not their small miners (makes NO sense) so we're only seeing "pocket change" liars here,
3) OR they're only not paying people who are lying about their balances? (whut?)

Seeing as #1 is most certainly the case, "balance inflation" on posts here has zero relevance as far as 50btc's trust, reputation and current actions.
Yeah, okay; fine - maybe some people are embiggening their balance claims, but who GAF. Fine. Distractor. Got it.

That doesn't make 50btc any less culpable.
The -fact- is, that everyone who mined at 50btc (and that's a lot of people) have had their transactions in-process cancelled, and their balances reset to 0.000000.
This is the issue.

Your revelation that some folks might be crafting fisherman's stories has jack sh- to do with the problem at hand.