I stopped hashing for bitlc a few days ago. As you can see in your logs, I did not run a botnet. Botnets are pure evil and can bring a pool down fast.

I am a pool hopper though. I understand that a proportional pool wants to deter pool hoppers, but be clear about it. Put it in the terms of service, mention it during registration, in a faq. Maybe even enforce it by blocking workers from connecting.

Can you point out where on your site you inform people that payouts are withheld for pool hoppers? I cannot find it. I also just searched the forum and your Twitter account for the word 'hop'. No results at all on Twitter. Burried in 56 pages of messages in this forum thread I managed to find these messages:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10121.msg351107#msg351107

and also:
Is this a policy to disallow hoppers?

I have contributed lots of blocks to bitlc. As it stands now you have been holding my bitcoins hostage for more than a week under the pretence of a 'wallet switch'.

Do you have an estimate for when the payouts will be done?

That's OK; the forum software is indeed a bit buggy sometimes.

That's strange; I'm trying right now and it still gives the same message! How is that even possible, are payments coming from different wallets or something?

This silence does not inspire confidence in bitlc. Why isn't there any news on this being posted?

Payments have been down for almost a week now, what gives?

Every time I try to make a payment it returns:

nice guide. Bitcoins have all kinds of safe properties, but us puny humans are still the weakest link it seems.

I understand that spammers are not welcome on the forum. but these rules are quite annoying for new users. i hope they are effective. it seems so, because i don't see a lot of spam.

Two!

Hello!  I am hollyhunter.  I tend to do much more reading than posting so I will enjoy my "newbie" status for a rather long time.  Cheers!