@Vega
(ps: As an ironic sidenote, I voted for carolina to stay, even advocated for it. Its there in the chat log.)
Where is that in the logs? I went through them and found nothing...
Maybe for finding something to start with, can you give some explanatory description on GDT? Who is making the list of members now and in the past? I believe GDT should provide to all of the Lisk community some statement of purpose and explanation of their operations.
In response to various members of GDT praising each other and spreading falsehoods under the cover of undisclosed interests, let’s focus on some very crucial issues:
GDT enforces a policy of accumulating forging rewards from their members. They advertise this as being advantageous for Lisk because less selling pressure arises. However, amassing the block rewards within a group of 80+ mutual voters for keeping a voting reserve will derail the consensus mechanism over time that is underlying dPoS. There is various evidence in the posted logs that GDT is ultimately trying to monopolize the forging rewards for obtaining an insuperable voting power, and even for controlling who will get a forging slot beyond their 80+ members.
Delegating the proof of stake within the original concept of dPoS was given the significance that delegates actually represent the majority of stake holders, while GDT is attempting to dead-lock consensus by means of an effective majority vote for themselves through accumulated forging rewards, by which meaningful delegation comes to an end. The original concept of dPoS had no significant amount for block rewards that could have an impact on votes for delegates. With Lisk it was envisaged that block rewards are spent, and it was not foreseen that they get accumulated by a large group of mutual voters.
There is also an issue with the governance that is underlying GDT. Having a list of delegates that must be voted (for which GDT is practicing enforcement) is a form of centralization. Distribution and decentralization are not the same, there is an excellent article about this
https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274 .