Quote from: grippy54 on April 19, 2014, 03:15:09 AM

Quote from: miaviator on April 19, 2014, 01:16:14 AM

I encourage and implore all providers to rate their rigs at a true and accurate speed. Based on the last 24 hour performance. IE if your rig is hashing at a straight line of 2.17Mh/s you should rate it 2.15 or less. Pool Swaps will bring down the 24 Hour a bit. If your rig has downtime or hash-rate fluctuation you should account for that.

So if I have a renter that uses a bad pool, and my hash rate suffers, that's my fault? I should be rated as underperforming for the action of a renter?

My concern is real. I have this now, despite trying to contact the renter with info on how to select pools for better performance.

I also have this concern. I list my machines living in north america, but i occasionally get people that will mine halfway across the globe in germany, poland, or UK. pings are higher, and i do notice more stale shares when the pools are farther away.

I have also noticed that places like IPOminer pool have low difficulty as they specialise in initial mining, and this can create more rejects becuase the blocks are flying so fast.

some switching pools prefer to have "no-submit-stale" : false,, and i have mine set to true, which works for the majority of pools, but may result in lower rates for pools that accept stale shares. If i set to false, there no way to guarantee the backup pool will not consider stale shares as rejects.

I've also mined some fixed-difficulty pools that exhibit high flux in accepted hashes that only even out after a few days. if someone is renting 72hours that's not a problem, but the hashrate will never be correct if someone goes fixed-diff for a short lease (e.g. 6 or 12 hours)

I occasionally get the following message from the LRP: "WARNING Speed buffer filled. Speed reporting may be incorrect.", so i am concerned that leaserig may not be recording the same hashrate experienced at the pool. one of my rigs is doing this right now, and this is with a full restart of LRP and sgminer:

I try my best to give the people that lease my equipment a good mining experience, and i underrate my rigs. However, i've seen LRP hashrate inaccurate when compared to my sgminer outputs. I compensate any reduction in performance by extending the lease. I do everything i can to hook the renter up, but that's not reflected in a thumbs up, thumbs down system.

I can appreciate the intention: some people do inflate their hashrates and this must add up to an annoying number of feedback problems and helpdesk tickets. however, when someone clicks on the "hire" button of an underperforming rig, the disclaimer "Are you sure you want to hire an Under Performing Rig?" is a real disincentive to rent. i understand the problems the business is trying to address, but this seems like a harsh way to do it.