I will state again since you seemed to have missed it, closing the pool when miners are unpaid is morally ambiguous.
You are acting as if I am not going to pay the pool because of ARS's actions. I really think you need to reread what has been said in this thread.
I said nothing to the affect that you would not pay your miners because of BT closing ARSBitcoin. As an operator of a PPS platform mining pool, I believe it is required of you to pay out all shares as you have taken any buffer for yourself and have agreed by offering PPS to take on all risk of variance for yourself with the hopes of making profits off quick blocks. As to SMPPS and BurningToad, you should read pg 16-17 of
Meni's Analysis of Bitcoin Pooled Mining Reward Systems, published Nov. 17, 2011.
Furthermore, it is very rude to say BurningToad morally ambiguous when he had stated;
I've been having a number of personal issues. One of which has affected my ability to be very social or responsive.
especially given the fact that he stated this when the pool had a 800+ BTC positive buffer. You knew and understood, or had the information available but ignored it, the dangers associated with mining at a SMPPS pool.