or the pool should ask the user how many ip's are being used for submitting shares.
If >100 then a solid explanation should be made. Otherwise if not confirmed, everything above the first 10 ip's should be discarded...
Same trick can be done in some formula for submitted shares / minute.

I agree, but unfortunately pool owners don't have any incentive to do this.  It is to their benefit to allow the botnets on as they will get all the blocks and thus all the fees.

Our only hope would be that a pool owner had more morals and ethics than greed.

Botnets line the pockets of the botnet owners and the pool owners, hurt those of us who mine legitimately, and reduce the value of the crypto currency.  Not only that but it puts another thorn in the side of legitimacy of this type of currency and how it can be used globally.

Ultimately that devalues the coin for everyone including the pool owners.

It's up to the pool owners now...

If I am reading that right,  468 Shares earns .062161 PTS  the PPS for ypool is .00013

Havn't quite figured out their reward method.

Regardless, its free mining for them. So they dont care.  They are starting these miners with a single thread and create limited cpu usage per computer. When you add all the computers in the botnet up, though, they become significant.

Pool operators benefit from the fees from rapid block creation.  The rest of us suffer as we are left with the scraps.

This is the nature of the game unless pool operators get on board and remove obvious bots.

I don't see this happening.

I just want everyone to know that 1 out of 3 blocks I find is orphaned.   As a result even with a 30% fee I might not break even.   At this point the pool is a public service.

I suspect that if you look at the PTS per hash that you get from other pools you will see the same thing.  They only pay you for the blocks found.   I am doing the same thing.

I will continue to monitor the situation carefully.

Our friends at Ypool are grabbing all the blocks because they are filled with botnets. I know you say that PTS were designed to be bot proof, but that does not appear to be the case. Ypool is down now. Otherwise I would post some examples of the hashrates certain users are getting.   Some of these are confirmed bots.

The owner of pools that allow botnets are only doing it out of greed.  These botnets steal the vast majority of the PTS from each block and then those of us who are mining legitimately are left with leftovers.