And why Eluthria would like to do that? 5% from 50% is 2.5% from total network power. Monthly it's 100800*2.5% = 2520 BTC! It's his salary for maintain server and pool. Destroing this means bye bye to 176k$ salary, at current exchange rate...
It is not his payout that is the concern, it is the break of faith in the community as a whole that could have devastating consequences. He is already aware and looking to mitigate anyway so it will be a moot point hopefully.
Chiming in. Yes, I'm looking at ways to prevent the pool from hitting the magic numbers that will frighten the community. Looking at other pool growth in the last week or so, I'm hopeful it will sort itself out. But I am prepared to kill off the getwork potion of the pool with very short notice, which would shave about 15% of the pool speed off, assuming they don't immediately upgrade to Stratum.
As for my income, yes, BTC Guild is making a lot right now (more than I would have ever expected). Just note that half the pool is at 3% fee PPLNS (also pays tx fees), and both PPLNS and PPS pay for orphaned blocks, so it's closer to ~3% than ~5%.
On thread topic: I'm expecting to see 10m by the end of April. We're going to skip 5m entirely and go straight for 6m this adjustment phase, and this is just the beginning of the ASIC era.
