I'm new and have been using btcguild and ghash.io. I am seeing accusations of stealing from miners being aimed at both pools. I have been trying to keep track of both by using the formula below to come up with $ per day per miner on average. Using S1s overclocked to 200.

(total mined) / (number hours) * 24 / (all miners hashrate) * (individual miner hashrate)

Then I add the results for each day and divide by the number of days.

For the last 10 days
btcguild = 2.32
ghash.io = 2.35

Not much difference.

btcguild seems to be having some very bad luck yesterday and today. ghash.io seemed to be having very bad luck a few weeks ago.

Are there any pools that come with verifiable honest dealings with miners?
Any good ideas on how to monitor things that aren't to intensive?

:-P

I've read the phrase throttled pool or heavily throttled for 12 hours in pool descriptions. What does this mean?