So, that 5% penalty for so many *would be* stales isn't coming out of the pockets of the people that are actually getting the *would be* stales, it's coming out of the pockets of the people that spent money to have fast hardware and very few stales!!
With the change to pay stale shares, this pool went from being one of the best (payout-wise due to 0% fees) for extremely fast miners (say a 5970) that get can process the entire GetWork solution space in 10 seconds or less, to one of the worst (only ahead of Pay-Per-Share 10% fee pools) due to subsidizing the payouts of those with slower hardware and thus more *would be* stales.
Likewise, this pool went from being an absolute nightmare impossibility for extremely slow miners (like CPU or nVidia GPUs) to being better than the PPS 10% fee pools (unless there are only slow miners in the pool......), but still wouldn't pay out as much as a normal pool.
Prove that anyone is receiving a reduced payment due to it and I'll politely accept it and ban all CPU users from my pool so that they can be told to fuck off by another pool operator... until then, I'll ask that you stop posting unfounded accusations about our pool.
Likewise, any discussion not directly related to connecting to our pool, joining our pool, issues or feedback on our website's functionality or display, or any potential concerns related to your active mining accounts on our pool, will be considered trolling and will be ignored.
Good day Sirs.