I'm new at this myself. Only started mining at the beginning of the month when
Hexide started using bitcoins instead of Paypal.
Well... All was good until the hack. From reading the thread it looks like slush has no way of tracking shares for blocks mined while the database is down. As such I think (please correct me if im wrong) he's sharing them amongst those that are still mining when it comes back up.
It's also my understanding, although I'm wondering too what will happen if my miner gets disconnected or something. Do I have to be connected thrgouh the whole of the outage or will it recognize the fact that I was on for most of it anyway?