^ You are exactly right. I'm hoping these new stand alone wallets will help that out along with bitpay service growing bigger.

This is a score based pool(most are pplns which are even more strict) so when you leave you loose the value from the shares of blocks not solved yet and when you come back it takes some time to build back up. Pool hopping doesn't work. It's programmed into a pools software to make you loose profits thus preventing cheating by hopping around to pools having good luck at that time.

Right, until that block is solved and confirming, you loose shares if you leave. There is a small delay, but it will go to zero reward quickly.

Note: These practices were put in place quickly by the pools because of cheating. People had wrote papers on techniques to pool hop and miners were abusing the network. So pools implemented hop proof software.

I learned the hard way also. Now I just "set it and forget it".

+1... that system is not fair. Then it's not pps because I had all those shares and i received nothing because I just mined 15/16 hours . 15 hours lost . Fukin great system

There is a whole thread on Pools if you aren't happy here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=41.0

All pools have some sort of penalty to prevent hopping which is what you did do. We all have been bit by it.

and if u came into the 16 hour block with 30minutes left u would have got paid like u were here all 16 hours.
basically if you dont like it dont mine slush.

it stops pool hopping.

Oskuro, oyes loco...yo me arte de los blockes de slush, de ves en cuando se me va el senal de internet y todo el tiempo que dure minando esta perdido.  me cambie a Ghash.  como dice 3Ball MTY "intentalo" alamejor te gusta mas. 

eoakland

yes, all you whiners leave so we can have your share of the pie

First of all, if the whiners leave, you won't have their share of the pie. You are going to be getting a bigger piece from a pie that will proportionally take more time to be baked, so your net gain over time is the same, haven't you figured that out yet? Unless you are referring to the single block that gets mined right after they leave, in which case I believe that anyone wanting to leave, would do so right after a block is mined.

Secondly, the "if you don't like it, get out/if you don't like it there are other alternatives" argument is plain stupid and invalid. The whole purpose of a discussion forum is for people to express their opinion on how something could be improved. You may disagree, so please feel free to express your reason for disagreeing. But nothing is built perfect, so arguments like "no-one forces you to use it" do not invalidate the original argument.
Isn't obvious that the individual chooses for various other reasons to use a service, but still thinks that there are ways for it to be improved? Otherwise, his post would be like "Please suggest me some alternative cause I think this one is crappy"

tl;dr People using the "if you don't like it, you can get out" argument are in a fanboy mental state. Needless to say that rarely are they not plain wrong, because they believe they use a perfect system, which is never the case.