Speaking as the lead Developer of GLD.
This is not a scam pool, there was an issue with the pool in the past few days that Dreamwatcher has resolved.
One of the best/most stable GLD pools currently out there is his pool.
Give it another chance
As far as the block reward change goes,
Please read
http://www.gldcoin.com/documents/GoldCoin_Patch_v1.2.pdfBefore you go complaining about things,
It was necessary or we'd be inflating the money supply 5-10X the first year alone, the block reward being stuck at 500 was a BUG not a feature.