Just to give maybe a different perspective on H2o... I'm a small business owner - we'll do $2.5 to $3 million in revenue this year, so you know the scale. It's lucrative - I make a nice living and don't have to work a ton.
I'm the money guy. All dollars run through me - billing, payroll, accounting, etc. I read somewhere earlier in this thread where h2o said he has a couple part time employees and doesn't trust people enough to give up much control. And I get that 100%. Financially, I could delegate most of what I do and be semi-retired, but I'm not willing to hand over the money to someone else.
As lucrative as I understand this pool to be for him, honestly, if I were him, I'd probably be even LESS communicative than he is. If I'm making as good a living as it appears he is, and do most of it myself, and can't or won't do a lot of delegating, AND want to actually live a little, then I honestly care less about give the community warm fuzzies than I do about enjoying my life.
Stats break, I'll get around to it. Forum questions/complaints take a while to be addressed, if ever, so what. I lose a little of my hash rate and my bottom line shrinks a little, fine, I still make plenty AND probably have a little less work to do.
I focus on making payouts be reliable and higher than the competition, go put my feet up a little, and let the folks who can do math choose to use my pool. Stats and the occasional unexchanged spike are immaterial in the grand scheme of things.
Just my $0.02. :-)
At last, another voice of reason.
This is h20's baby. He runs it as he desires. He owes nothing to anyone beyond what he offered when he began this pool, mining the highest paying coins and cashing the profits in as BTC and distributing those proceeds as they were earned minus his agreed upon fees.
He's made it abundantly clear that he's not going to change the interface or alter any of the other superficial niceties that everyone keeps complaining about. He is perfectly happy with providing the best performing multipool out here and reaping the rewards of his excellence.
You don't like all of that, fine, it's a free world and you don't have to like it, but you aren't going to change it no matter how many times you post about how much better it would be with it. You can complain, you can suggest, you can "air your grievances"
all you choose, it serves no constructive purpose, because, as we all have been able to see over the past several weeks, h2o isn't going to change the way the pool operates.
Thus, all the complaints, the whines, the wishes, the suggestions, the "airing of grievances" is pointless and indulging in it is nothing more than self-indulgent bitching.
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is one description of insanity.
This isn't "fanboi-ism", this isn't "beating people up," this isn't telling people "STFU," this isn't telling people not to "air their grievances," this is just stating facts . . . it's just asking you . . . what's the point?
After 350 pages it should be abundantly clear that you are wasting your time and the time of everyone else on this forum.
