Why fix what ain't broke?
because it is broken, deepbit miners have to pay a "hopper" tax currently
Has anyone calculated/estimated this "hopper tax" on Deepbit? When Ozco was proportional it was very easy to see the amount of hopper traffic. It was about 300 GHash. At that time Ozco was a 30 to 50 GHash pool so this probably did have a large effect on the payouts, I imagine. But Deepbit is and has been a 3 to 5 THash pool, so if the hopper traffic is the same or similar 300GHash then payout losses to full time miners would be less, maybe even negligible.
I mine on Deepbit blissfully aware that I am using the most reliable pool available. That means allot when I have to leave my rig unattended for a week or two at a time. It's even worth the "Outrageous" 3% fee, in my opinion.
Sam