As for phzi, he's just going to take the brunt of it because he's here a lot, and posting a lot 
And having admitted it proudly seemingly knowing exactly what he was doing!
Over the past three days, there has been as much as a 26% rise in the value of litecoin itself, the value of which many other scrypt coins seem to track. And as litecoin is one of the coins we have been mining, I should hope that our profits measured in BTC are increasing as well!
Unfortunately, over the last 3 days there has also been close to an equal rise in difficulty LTC profitability has increased only marginally in that time (5%?).
LTC profitability has increased only marginally in that time (5%?).An excellent point of course.. I might have omitted that part of the equation simply to make a stronger point (in the absence of someone else who knows what he is talking about) . Or I might have simply neglected to account for the increasing difficulty. I'll never tell (but you could look a few pages back to see if I was aware of the litecoin situation.)
Looking forward to pool rejection rate statistics!
Update, there should be another significant litecoin difficulty increase in less than one hour!