What do you look for in a pool?

[rog1121]

I just started a pool recently over at http://doge.rapidhash.net and wanted to know what you guys look for in a pool to deem it worthy and worth switching to?

[supercomputer987]

In order of importance in my opinion:
1) Trust that the owner isn't screwing people over.
2) Security of the site.
3) Reliability of the mining portion of the pool.
4) Size of the pool/Time between payouts.
5) Communication between the pool owner and users for things like maintenance and outages.

[kostja]

You need a lot of cash for covering payment/exchange errors.
Coin switching.
Newbies support.

[black_swan]

0) no errors in payments
1) no stales
2) uptime

[Sunnyfive]

Less reject, that's important.

[cryptoprime]

1) Availability through multiple stratum servers
2) Security
3) Anti-DDOS measures
4) Responsive and visible Pool admins

[ltcifc]

1) Warm Water

[jonanon]

Size, trustworthiness and past performance count for everything for me!

 

[Jcw188]

Nothing fishy in payouts.

Good communication from owner whenever anything funny happens.

Low fees.

Ease of use of site.

[cerleo]

To have good support,the site should be easy to use and the pool running smoothly.That's the basic from my opinion.There are quite a lot of other factors.