I was online tuning the pool when the forking mess started last night and I resynced the pool's daemon to what apparently was the correct fork of the block chain. We had 0 orphans through the entire mess and all our miners received excellent payouts while the rest of the pools were on other forks. I think it pays to be paying attention but luck also helps a lot probably.

I am glad you are happy with bitops, we will remain at the current fee amount despite other pools going 0%, because we have provided a high quality service & owning and hosting an actual dedicated physical server does cost money. We will continue expanding our pool service to a larger servers and more coins as long as there is demand. if you would like a new coin added to the bitops.me pool plz PM me but for now we will continue focusing on GHC, despite the fud and trolling going on here!