Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  Are there any verterans of this board around that can remember why they created this bizarre system?  Was there a spam flood or some hostile takeover attempt?  I'm just curious why the hoops are necessary.

And I keep getting the last post within 360 seconds, but only have one post like 45 minutes ago  I just can't win.  All I want to do is find out why the pool I am on is registering my shares but not giving me any coins.

edit: Yay, finally got a post through

I started mining at hashcows yesterday and turned off the auto-convert to bitcoin for all the coins and do not have it set to auto-pay to any wallets.  I have at least 12 hours in over there (only 220khash/s, but still) and have gone through several rounds but I show nothing on my balances page.  The ticker shows my hashrate (290Kh/s right this moment), my workers show a hashrate and I show current shares if I go to statistics (and have on other rounds as well).

I have mined for 5 rounds, of which the previous 4 are green showing they have been paid, yet I have nothing in my balances.  I would ask in the hashcows thread, but alas, I am but a newbie and can only post here.  Anybody have any ideas on what to look at or change?  Just be patient?