I see one vote as a vote of the actual miners and the other as a vote of the pool operators (though the lines can be blurred).
Still, an overwhelming majority of pool operators (99.99%) do not give that very simple option to vote to their users, and for me (with the hindsight of slush's brilliance), that is not a vote at all, simply the wishes of pool operators (if a clear distinction can be made from the miners).

The vote on slush is, and I quote: Right now, every Slush Pool miner can vote for larger blocksize.
So clearly (and if you cared to have read the last couple of pages here), it is not about XT, BIP100, BIP101 or whatever. Just bigger block size, which can be achieved any of different ways, including XT.

And no, not all other pools mine bigger (than standard 1MB) blocks, though some (mainly Chinese) pools mine 8MB blocks. The troll would have you believe otherwise.

Additionally (and as far as I am aware), only slush has ACTUALLY offered the choice to users to vote for bigger blocks.

That much the troll knows, though he keeps trying to whip up some kind of negativity towards slush by attributing patently false aims to slush in a veiled attempt to get miners to elope to his his own pool.

Nope. You are wrong again and you've taken the opportunity to spam even more.
So, I'll draw a clean line and stop feeding this troll.

Not that I am aware of, but it could be there.

Moot point (and offtopic).
There are many more (bigger) 8MB blocks, and not many from slush, actually none from slush. (now go spam somewhere else!)

One can be right amongst a crowd, let alone a "team" of five, but that is besides the point (and the choice offered by slush). That debate, though, belongs to another thread.

The vote offered by slush is an inspired one on many levels, given that there are options available to the one peddled by the "majority core dev team" (and known to the entire bitcoin world). By the looks of it, more hashes than not seem to agree with the "minority of 2" in the bitcoin core developement "team" (pool rate is now past 17PH and growing ..... not to mention improving luck!).

That's an inspired thought ... if only to reduce the pitch of the nosie from its fans. It should work if the fan has comparable (even better) airflow, and I'd suggest you'd be better off putting the inards into another (new) enclosure altogether, that way you can focus the airflow from the 120/140mm fans ala S5 printed mods ....

Slush don't live here anymore! Make your request via their facebook page and it will be more likely to get a response. Even better, put that request in the developement corner centre (its more likely to get their attention faster if it is voted up!).

PS. I recomend the last option ...

The razor and hair-strand comment was not directed towards your comment, was just included in a response to your comment.
Saying that, I think you hit it on the head there, aka there are changes in the XT client that are completely separate from the block size, which (no surprise here) is exactly my thinking. The hash vote is for block size not the XT client (or the other means to achieving a larger block size). That there are implications to that should be the subject of another thread, of which I am sure there are plenty .... but thanks for clarifying anyway.

Its a means to an end and not the end itself (and we're not at the end either). If and when we get to THAT end, then I agree, it would be nice (just nice) to know what means a pool deploys. As it stands, it is neither here nor there (akin to dilligently applying a razor to a hair-strand!).

It is a simple vote (by hash) of whether we'd like to get to a certain end-point (not a vote on the means to get to that endpoint).

It is what it is, and very clearly stated, and I quote: Right now, every Slush Pool miner can vote for larger blocksize..
The XT part is what is totally off-topic since it is neither mentioned in the post nor been raised as an issue to slush by any of my fellow pool users. So there, find the thread discussing the merits and demerits of XT, block sizes et al and continue that discussion there.

Probably not. It is what it is, that which WE are voting on with OUR hash.
There are, I'd imagine, multiple threads discussing THAT distinction where you'd no doubt be on-topic.

As time goes by, it seems more people are voting with their hash for XT (pool hash-rate was approx 14PH yesterday and it is now approx 16PH and growing!).
And yes, the "test" was done without informing pool users, and most likely the announcement to offer the choice to vote for XT was made after the "test", but more important is that the choice is to be offered (and pertinently that the pool hash seems to be growing as the news spreads and the importance of the "test" sinks in).

Insightful ..... so then bitmain just let the news out to ride the crash rather than being wholly responsible for the drop. That'd make sense.
Still, there is probably a good amount of the drop (even lack of bounce) factoring in the implications of the increased network hashrate that the new chip'd represent (as is the norm).

Do not feel obliged to respond as you only exercebate the spamming with that typically nonsensical response. And while at it, get a life!
Thank YOU.

In the meantime .... slush (the 15PH + pool) is on a bit of a roll today, eh!?

Stop spamming this thread with your off-topic debate about what is alt and not. You saying it is on-topic is simply burying your pokey hed in the sand. you want o carry on that debate, take it to your self moderated pool thread (where your nonsense prevails over reason).
And by the way, you do not have any pool thread seeing this is a public forum, simply a self moderated thread (as in you can delete whatever comment does not suit your narrow-mindedness, in your case).

You nitwit .... just engage your brain for a moment before you try to unpick my statement. If you can suggest any other legitimate reason for that drop, then go ahead. Short of that, you can safely assume you were not the first to know about the release of the new chip, someone else (in China) knew well in advance.

Sooo .... anyone noticed what the effect of this announcement has had on the bitcoin price today?

Good to finally see the next-gen chip, and that being 28nm and not the much vaunted 14nm, which makes for even more interesting times ahead!

This is a public forum not a bitmain forum, so no need to lock this thread.

could other pool admins stop spamming slush's thread with off-topic musings trying to lure miners by splitting hairs please?