Do new miners looking for a good payout pool care about any of this ....NOPE they dont. Who cares who owns the hash in the pool, Who ares where the 10% comes from, who cares about any of the trivial crap you keep on spouting your lips about,? only you and your band of misfits. Lets say s0br is running a pool with no profit, why do you care? what business is it of yours?
All that matters is we get paid what the page says. Your pool has absolutely no ability to tell me exactly what i will be making, you can not estimate my earnings because of the luck %s. At least with BaN a new miner can go see exactly what his payout will be. everything is available at his fingertips, how much we are paid per share, the average hashrate of our machines per payout, you can even then calculate what the bonus will be. Can your PPLNS pool do that.. NO WAY and you know it. BOTTOM LINE here, BaN is the best pool to mine in at the moment. most consistant on payouts, most reliable customer service, userfriendly interface and stats for plenty of comparisons on the dashboard. this you can not deny.
I agree on most of what you state, as the pools finances really does not concern us as long as the payments come which was always has been the problem in the past with other PPS pools. BAN has made it so miners can pull payouts as often as 1 hour, (which was mandatory at first and we asked s0br to allow for longer times due to dust payments some got) because s0br has said he does not want the pool holding miners coins. So with the short payment time it would be hard for this pool to stiff miners by a large amount.