There's not such thing as "we can't do anything".
I totally agree.
Yes, I have been thinking about this, this AM and a possible option is for us to draft an open-letter that we send to polo and BTER asking them not to forge until more node come online. Hear me out (and correct me if my assumptions are wrong.)
The problem is that the exchanges have huge wallets. When they lose connection, they create forks. Since they create forks, they control the forks with their massive balances and they can never resolve back to the network since they are on longer block-chains.
If these guys stop forging, then the total number of Qora forging will go down, but that means nodes with smaller balances will hit blocks and the more-even distribution should help prevent forks. Also, if a user with a sizable balance creates their own fork, then there is no real issue for the network (just the user, who can drop their block-chain and resync.)
Polo and Bter can join back up but only after the size of their wallet is a less significant percent of the network forging balance.
In fact... Thia could possibly be solved by a fix in the client. If a forging cap is set per node (say, 100m qora) then it is unlikely that a 100m qora account will create a badly broken chain.
Am I wrong?