... a few hours' delay in sending coins to user's wallet
in a few more hours = 1 day, something is not right, time to move to another pool

LMAO,, too funny,, hue hue hue,
f
f
What he said ^^^^^
Cool, more coin for me, thanks!

I guess that's why my earnings went up the last two - three days; last evening was really amazing

Uhm... before you get paid, the whole block needs to be CONFIRMED 120 times and that is with most pools!
It can take a few days for the 120 confirmations to go through for you to cash out your earnings.
If you want to get paid automatically, move to a pool that pays you without needing the 120 confirmations like BitMinter (donations needed for perk).
This is because the pool owner wants to make sure they don't pay out on orphaned blocks as this can cost the owner a lot.
Pool owners don't get paid on orphans, so they don't normally pay it; they're usually fast few second or couple minute blocks.
More of a kick in the crotch than anything but you also don't want an orphan of a 10 hour block; there goes your day's profitability.
Paying orphans shows confidence in their system; orphans should/must be rare anyways.
A few days ago, there was an orphaned block every 2 hours at GHash.io (resolved now); imagine if you were mining there that day or so?
They don't pay for orphans either, as far as I know, only BTC Guild and BitMinter let you cash out your earnings as they appear on your stats page.
Relax, you'll get your pay, pool owners wouldn't be in business still if they were ripping people off
