After you contribute with us toward your first 100% block, for example, you'll probably say something like "What in the world?!?!" when you see your first payout is about 1/5 what you would expect.
Hold your horses--er, miners!
Don't freak out and immediately login to your miners and repoint them back to some corporate pool safe-space where you pay high fees--Kano's is only 0.9%!!!--in exchange for daily payouts.
Take a deep breath, calm down, and remember this post telling you that due to the 5Nd PPLNS payout method, you didn't just get ripped off or lose 4/5 of a payout. It's just averaged over 500% of the current network difficulty (5Nd) to reduce payout variance.
So, even if you were to stop mining here after the first 1/5 payout, and the pool finds four (4) more 100% blocks without you, you'd still get that 1/5 payout four (4) more times!
Hopefully, you're not already scared off, and you think to yourself "I must just be missing something about this pool with 2100+ forum pages, 1000+ miners, and 2300+ blocks!", so you keep mining here over the next week or so, and you ramp up from 1/5 to 2/5 then 3/5, etc. all the way to 5/5. Then, if you ever quit mining, you'll ramp back down from 5/5 to 4/5 then 3/5, etc. all the way back down to 0/5.
That's the most basic scenario, but I hope that helps to prepare you a little bit. Basically, it's an awesome way to reduce variations in your payouts especially if you have intermittent outages in which case you'll barely even notice that in your rewards.
P.S. - Read my sig. It's all true. We love it here, and there's even more discussion on Discord, which you can join via the link on the Kano.is homepage... We look forward to mining with you and reading your comments and questions.
P.P.S. - I wish I got paid by the word for this post, but alas, it was all for free. That should at least tell you something about the community here too, actually.