Long story short, can the pool get on newer coins sooner and hide what we are mining for a while? I, like GunPowder am all for that!
I'd like to take a little more risk as well! The earlier we can get on the better.
I agree with this as well, it's sort of what IPOminer was like before it got popular and regularly had more than 1GH.
Using a placeholder coin name would be a good start?

After this commercial break!
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It's West coin!
[Photoshopped image of Westcoin in above image]
And I doubt the average miner could guess what coin is being mined based on block reward times, difficulty, etc.
Just a suggestion!
Maybe delay the profitability formula instead on brand new coins? I forgot which recent coin it was, but it wasn't traded yet but we mined it any way. Ended up being worth around .02 BTC MH when it matured and traded!