When you don't have to actually manage the farm in person it's a lot less worrisome... it lets you focus on just securing the coins and running the operation. For most of us in the mining forum it is messing around with the hardware that we all find attractive, much more so than monetary contributions at times (because who doesn't like looking for a dropped screw in a running rig with ambient temps of 95F with lights low to save heat/power).
Lol running a farm can definitely be troublesome I know man, I can imagine the picture lol. I wish to run a farm here in Canada.
Yeah I remember back to the days of mining BTC with GPUs in 2011. I had horrible internet and power access at my mining location, so of course I would get notifications at 3:30AM that all the rigs went offline. I would get out of bed, drive to the location which was in a very bad part of town I carried mace or a crowbar with me, and then have to reset the miners only to get the same notification as soon as I got home. Some days I would mine an 0.2BTC which was hard to come by because MtGox stopped taking Dwolla or something like that so mining was my only option.
Sometimes it's just easier to just click the buy button and eat pizza while watching fellow miners on Youtube fight with rigs lol.