Uff, there're too much posts since my last visit on friday. Shortly:

a) Yes, I fixed one round yesterday, where rewards were calculated wrongly.
b) Pool works since DDoS. If you have connection issues, you've probably wrong DNS records. Never ever use direct IPs,as I'm moving Stratum backends between servers/datacenters.
c) Database crashed few minutes ago. I fixed it in ~15 minutes, mining backends worked all time so no block has been lost. Just shares were not counted for this period. Everything is working normally again, just statistics are now screwed up because of database downtime.
d) FAQbot is up again

Slush you must have the patience of a saint.  With all these repeat questions and impossible requests, I don't think I would be quite so civil.  Although, i guess it's easy to not be an ass online.  Just don't post... lol

And to all those looking for Slush to redo the algorithm to include PPS at the end of the round... It will never happen.  IF the algorithm gets changed, it will be to DGM, or some other hopping proof method.  It's a HUGE undertaking to change how the payouts are calculated, and to add in any form of PPS would be a step back in the consistency of payouts from this pool.

irc chat room is that a slush specific chatroom or a bitcoin talk in general and where would i find it

If your looking for support specific to slush's site you can click on 'live support' on the left hand side of the 'my account' page on slush's website.

K.

The resets make no difference to the score. Your proportion is still the same. The only difference the resets make is that they mean Slush doesn't have to deal with numbers with 100 digits.

That's called variance.  That slow miner could theoretically grab another share or two between the reset and the round ending and end up with a higher score than normal too.  You never know when the shares are gonna come.  You just can't say that you always loose out, because it's simply not the case.

So was I, but in the interest of fairness I take back the last sentence from my previous post... lol

Well, they do make a difference, as it had been pointed out before. My initial thought was to perform the following instead of the reset:

1) Divide by a big number & round everyones score to maintain the proportions but get rid of a lot of digits.
2) Adjust the constant C (currently always 300) according to the big number used for the division - logarithmic. (so at the end, the algorithm maintains the same curve, scaled down)

I do not want to raise a flame war, and note that I was not complaining either - but am open to any discussion on the maths behind this.

Cheers,
   T

I know slush has an ongoing project related to switching over to DGM.  He has been working on it for quite a while now (in his spare time, lol), but I'm not sure how close he is to completing it.

I'm not saying that there aren't any good suggestions out there, but I'm guessing he will just finish that project before implementing any other changes to the scoring algorithm.  And in my opinion, that would probably be the best for everyone.  We could say goodbye to loosing 25% on rounds under 10 minutes...

Unless Slush has changed the way the reset works, that is an incorrect description.