In POOLERS. ORG's defense,
Yes they blew it on the ZEIT launch! I waited 33 minutes after launch before going with a different pool, However for over the the last five weeks I have mined Coino on their pool, and made lots of BTC and have had ZERO issues with downtime, payouts hanging or any of the issues we would expect while mining for a long period on most other pools. They do that pool beautifully and I have recommended it to several friends to mine coino on.
Matter of fact after getting screwed on the Zeit pool of theirs, mad as I was, I switched back to mining Coino on their pool, after the hang on block 500 lol.... so none are perfect either, give them another chance, I'm sure they are honing their skills right now
I might add: I made a hell of a lot more money mining Coino on their pool, than I have yet mining Zeit coin,,,, hands down
Here is what happened.
I had the pool ready to go just waiting for the wallet source. The downloads were released and there was no source. Many pool admins started asking for the source in IRC. I saw more than one url, none of which came from a person with @ before their name, so I expected there would be a lot of spam links like there often is during big launches. At this point the rest of the pools go to the provided link, get it compiled, and are up and running. Meanwhile I am still hung up on getting a link from an admin or on the first post, so I was waiting.
I didnt take the pool live until a half hour after launch time, meanwhile all of the miners we had lined up to mine with us left for other pools. We were doing between 1 and 15 MH/s through the night and found 0 blocks. There was no withholding of payments or scamming going on. If the pool were to find a block right now, it would payout within 3 minutes of getting its confirmations. There were just a few people that didn't leave when everyone else did and their kilohashes didn't make anything on their own. This pool uses a prop payout system not pps. If no blocks are found, there are no coins to payout.
It is understandable to be upset that you wasted a launch night. But, you are only victim of an unfortunate situation caused by hysteria among thousands of people and my delayed launch. I would never scam anyone.