Do not get me wrong, I love supporting Kano but for the 2 months that I have been on kano pool I have earned .08342365 - 5 other miners with same hash rate on another pool have earned .12601409 so for the 2 months I have essentially "lost" out on almost 1/3rd of the profit I would have made had I not used Kano.

Now I realize we have had 2 low luck months and had I been on for September and using my average pymt amount, I would be at .19364022 for Kano and the other pool, including Sept would only be at .18942017  --- so Kano would have been better for me had I been on the pool longer. Short term may not always look good but for long term, Kano would be more profitable for me.

edit** and had I been here the whole year or if  I was willing to put all my miners on one pool - and had been here the whole year, I would prolly have quite a bit more than I have now, considering that BTC value and rewards have decreased over time.  but to use the average I get now (yes, I know it would have been higher earlier in the year) I would have made .89 BTC off the 200 blocks mined by Kano pool. where as the same 5 miners earned .753 BTC on slush - and that is actual based on the value/reward/difficulty that was in play at that time.