"You have to start somewhere", but maybe get rid of the teams, the rankings, the banner signatures with referral links, the gambling name, and the 2% fee for withdraws when there is something to withdraw. Then you still have to entice people to join, when their contribution in solving the first block will be diluted by the 700,000 shares in the first round already added by miners who have come and gone. Another recently started pool was knocking out four blocks a day at ten days in, by not looking shady.
Why remove the teams, rankings, and banner sigs ? if people dont want to use them then dont.
re the fee, this is only for manual withdrawal, you can always use automatic for free and thats processed twice per day. you could even use it as manual if you wanted
ie. set auto payout to 100000BTC then when u want to withdraw set it to 1btc
the manual fee is a rushed version where i have to wakeup/come to the computer and manually process it, hence the fee.
Teams: gives the impression some teams win and other teams lose, with the new member on the losing side
Rankings: Having it there shows that one should value it. It can only discourage membership of those who would expect not to place on the list, or those that expected to but don't.
Banners: Are referral links, encouraging more forum spam I get to ad block. When referrals are rewarded, they are rewarded out of the profitability of others, so if I see the obvious referral link, I'm not clicking.
Betcoin: What am I betting on? Does the house always win? Another pyramid scheme?
All of these make me want to join the pool as much as a slick talker in a plaid suit makes me want to buy a used car.
If you dont like it dont join
users can also choose to use the team link if they like. Referals only help drive people to help get the pool more registrations, and the rewards do not cost anyone anything (except me like i said b4)
