it's a mystery that has to be solved but of course the lack of communication is always there but you have to send a mail to "missing/fell asleep on the keyboard" admin/owner but there may or may not be a reply. also send a pm (so it's not spammy or to be seen or known to other miners, i call this isolation or under the table solution ?) there's nothing to hide or avoid if someone has something to share or gather info from other miners. if a pool operator/owner has internet problems, i'm sure the pool, payouts, issues are always a priority & he/she will find alternative ways to get internet such as using mobile phone tethering to lappy or something.
just couple of very simple questions, pool operator has spent lots of investment to start off, paying bonuses + S3 giveaways, if you are the owner/operator, would you be "missing" ? then who controls the payouts every hour or every couple of hours daily ? don't you have to reload or monitor the wallet for payout ? how is the pool running etc ? tracking numbers of miners sent out ? wouldn't you keep a file or record somewhere ? it's $ going out daily if no blocks hit by pool & it's coming out of operator's own pocket . . .
if x person has x amount of ghs/ths mining at a pool and pool pays out every hour, so that x person should be getting payment every hour not 1 or 2 payments less even if the pool is giving out the bonus, set the bonus aside if hourly means 24 payments but sometimes 1 or 2 payments less & why ?
next is bonus, if it's 12.5% more means 12.5% more why sometimes less ? well sometimes more it's good & happy for the x miner but i'm sure x miner would not mind if it's proper & it averages out.
if x miner points to pool with x amount of ghs/ths to 3 different server to the same pool, x miner should be getting the shares but strangely enough, miner is hashing, server is ok but at pool side it shows 0 ghs/ths but miner is mining but magically where or what is the miner mining ? if no hash = no shares but miner still mining but sometimes pool side shows some mining activity but sometimes it just goes off. miner problem ? nope because it is still mining & has been mining. connection problem ? no, internet is working fine. isp problem, yes & no, yes it could be yeah might lose some shares due to poor latency but miner should still mine though & miner is still mining & pool side should show some mining activity. pool site is sometimes working flawlessly & sometimes it just goes down suddenly especially after a block is found . . . most pools seem to be ok with that. sometimes x miner can only see own hashrate but not others & again why ? workers shows up & they don't.
well call this a rant or complain, start to spread FUD or whatever, but just my 2 cents & experience mining at the pool. mined here not because of the S3 draw, not really because of the 12.5% bonus (as it will not be there someday) it's because my friends came here to mine & thinking it's a good pool. but with the issues stated above, lots of doubts now. even friends become enemies = no fun. like i said before, there's a bunch of guys that mines here are from cex & most of us got to know each other & also supported each other when some admin @ cex started to ban customers without a legit reason & we all supported each other such as writing to cex higher admins, started our own irc channel, etc. it was those good old days but since ban things starts to mess up.
ysl I understand your beef and all problems have always been fixed for me i had a payment blip... I did proper accounting on my behalf submitted my calculations to s0br he took a few hours to check up on it and i was rewarded for my loss. More than I lost actually although i wont say how much. But i was duly compensated. I see you have even hit blocks for the pool. My gift to you is this...
Everyone is missing the point here. The point is not about the 12.5% bonus or a free s3 if that's why you were here leave cause anyone who doesnt win will FUD usually because their only purpose for mining here in the first place was to win. Most are negating the fact the s0br has bigger plans than just a mining pool, and those who can stick it out will be rewarded. Payouts got screwed when Multipool joined us and broke the pool, there have been issues but the pool is only 1 month old. and as far as I'm concerned my personal issues have been resolved any pending issues will be resolved its that simple. If those who's only focus is on mining and the pool then so be it because there is so much more in store than the pool which for now is the starter of many many other things to come.
Yes there are issues they are usually corrected as soon as they are reported/acknowledged s0br is back online and everything will be explained. My suggestion to you is to come to irc and see whats going on... My advice to you is if you are missing payments do the proper accounting and be able to show your losses if any to the number and it will be taken care of. Rest assured the weak will fall to the wayside and the faithful will be rewarded. I have and others will be too. Things will be okay. We're just baby's growing and cutting teeth and we miners are needed to get it right cex has tons of issues and megatons of complaints but people stick it out and sooner or later theyre fixed. Poor s0br takes 1 or 2 days away the world all goes to shit but remain faithful. Peace brother.