If someone could go through the pools and PM me with a list of all the pools that aren't working anymore so I could remove them, I would be ever so grateful.

Only short term.

UnitedScryptCoin is an interesting coin as it is the first to allow merged mining with scrypt (meaning you'd be able to mine doge / whatever at the same time as this coin). It'd be interesting for a pool to implement. Don't need to hate on it

Well this was easy to foresee and this is what I've already stated about it:

From http://spelunk.in/2013/12/17/discover-dogecoin-currency-for-the-internet/ :

Do you think all the doge attention will anger the lolcat community?

Billy: Hehe well, I guess I have two things to say, one semi serious and one lighthearted –

My semi serious response is, I really hope that people don’t see what happened with DogeCoin and try to make more popular-internet-memes into coins. I think a cryptocurrency based on a fun meme walks a really thin line between charming and obnoxious, and somehow the Doge meme is just so charming that it skillfully skirts that line and people can have a lot of fun with it. But I do think that if more get made like it, they could really start to become quite obnoxious and cross that line into negativity, and that would be sad to see given how positive things are right now.

But, in general for any dogs and cats argument, I would say both dogs and cats are plenty adorable and there’s certainly plenty of room on the internet for both to amuse people!

None yet. That's why it's still open.

Please point people here who have this issue https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/9

Known issue. See Op, second post, and github issues.

Yes will do. Haven't seen these all!

I agree. DataCoin should be on Cryptsy.

Let's play "ignore the mean doge" and go back to having fun, eh? 

No worry, only because some big pools are misbehaving

I'll add these to the ANN thread on the second post

For those having sync issues, I added more nodes to the OP.

addnode=67.205.20.10
addnode=146.185.181.114
addnode=95.85.29.144
addnode=78.46.57.132
addnode=188.165.19.28
addnode=162.243.113.110

There's only one answer -- dogecoin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaltexImW0
http://doge.wf/start/

For now, erasing your Roaming dogecoin directory and rebuilding the blockchain (if you already have a wallet with contents, keep that!)

Use the following nodes:
addnode=95.85.29.144
addnode=162.243.113.110
addnode=146.185.181.114
addnode=188.165.19.28
addnode=78.46.57.132

Fixing now.

should get http://baddoge.com/ too

Is this happening to many?

Only on initial startup?

I will look into it when I get a chance.

I would advise if people would like DogeCoin to retain value, not to make many additional meme coins. It would quickly get obnoxious. DogeCoin skirts the line, but Doge is so charming that it works....But a huge set of memecoins would lead to much hate.

Well, it's been in existence a week.

Like every single other cryptocurrency, it'll have many ups and downs for the next many years.