Thanks for the input. Can you say for sure what is to blame? Do you have any likely scenarios? Or should people just focus on this pool operator?
I don't think the focus should be on blaming anyone at all. I think the focus should be on finding the problem and fixing it. I think the best way forward is to let the pool op figure it out. That's probably the only person(s) who can.
Go fix your own pools and stop blaming this one
I
do fix my own pool when bugs are found. I've been running Bitminter for over 3 years, written all the software myself, including a mining client. Of course there have been bugs. Of course this pool will also have bugs. Finding and fixing them is a good thing.
Likely its your own problem from your own doing of shotty coding.
This is why I posted. People are saying that while Multipool mined here all users were paid less for their work. That's not possible in a PPS pool without the pool having an issue. Anyone who don't believe me, now is a good time to read up on what PPS means.
There will be some bugs along the way. That goes for all pools. It's not necessarily "shotty coding" as you call it. All code has bugs.