Choosing a mining pool

[s@t0sh!]

How do you decide which mining pool to join? Is there any discussion about this on BitcoinTalk? It would be great if someone could point me to the right thread, as I am new here and I tried searching, but couldn't get anything relevant. Any help would be appreciated...

[Gunntha]

It would be VERY helpful, if you would tell us, which currency you want to mine.
Not every pool supports every coin.
Without more infos we can´t help you.

[s@t0sh!]

It would be VERY helpful, if you would tell us, which currency you want to mine.
Not every pool supports every coin.
Without more infos we can´t help you.

So, I don't have a physical miner but I wanted to explore NiceHash. So, for that we have to join a mining pool then rent hashpower. So, in this case which pool would I join? My criteria would be the most profitable, stable and reliable mining pool.

[s@t0sh!]

It would be VERY helpful, if you would tell us, which currency you want to mine.
Not every pool supports every coin.
Without more infos we can´t help you.

I want to mine Ether. Then, how do I choose a mining pool?

[s@t0sh!]

It would be VERY helpful, if you would tell us, which currency you want to mine.
Not every pool supports every coin.
Without more infos we can´t help you.

I want to mine Ether. Then what would you suggest? I was more of looking for a high level approach at choosing a mining pool, regardless of which coin I want to mine, but in my current case I want to mine Ether.