My point was, all other things being equal (ie BTC per MH/s per day elsewhere being marginally HIGHER than CleverMining although statistical data has not been collected for sufficient duration to list this as a definite factor yet) the reject rate at CleverMining is 5-10% ABOVE any other pool tested (whether multipool or "traditional" mining).  That is 5-10% MORE than other multipool mining pools.  So yes 5-10% may be acceptable for Multipool however whatever the reject rate may be, my expereince is that CleverMining I get a baseline reject rate (as one would expect with any pool)  PLUS an additional 5-10%. With everything else being equal (ie BTC per MH/s per day), if there is a choice between 5-10% and 1% reject rate, which is the better choice?  Not an overly difficult decision.

Note that config in all cases is identical apart from the pool URL.  The only difference is the decreased clockspeed on CleverMining to lower reject rate.  Without this speed reduction the reject rate of a reject rate of 5-10% could be doubled, peaking to treble these values.  Once again NOTE  these changes have not been necessary anywhere else.  I am not trying to do anything with my cards on CleverMining than has worked at all the other pools.  So I can tweak and tune and have specific settings and I have done so experimentally with the 5-10% being the best achieved.  Alternatively I can take the same earnings rate, keep the 0.5Mh I can lose in rejects and using the exact same config I started with (prior to CleverMining tweaks), go to any of the other multipools or traditional pools.

If you look at the way the pool sizes at MiddleCoin, CleverMining and Wafflepool have shifted during the past month you`ll see that something is causing people not to move to CleverMining. Terk is undoubtedly doing a stellar job and having spoken to him a couple of times he is an agreeable fellow especially considering the stress he is under.  However the fact remains .. people can micro-manage their configs and optimise specifically for ClerverMining but why would they bother when they can simply go elsewhere, achieve the same results and not have to bother with this performance tuning?  Alot of people use Multipools as a "fire and forget" solution because they no longer wish to continually monitor pools, markets, prices etc nor do they wish to be perpetually tweaking their rigs to suit the characteristics of individual pools/currencies.  Instead they pick a multipool which allows use of a standard config, with no need for further effort required.  In this fashion they can draw a decent earnings rate from their hashpower.  Excellent, job well done, except .. to get the best out of CleverMining at the moment additional tweaking and tuning does seem to be necessary.