Great Article! I was just about to say the same thing. Want to lose a downline quick? Ignore them. I signed up last week just after my immediate upline signed up.
 Now we are both, wasting precious time, floundering everywhere to discover the marketing method used by upline who are on the leaderboards every week? Seems to me, if I could duplicate what my upline is doing to bring in so many signups, it would be a win/win for everyone!
I don't have time to waste trying to re-invent the wheel when the knowledge is there in working together.
I emailed and called twice to both uplines on the leaderboard. Just asking to point me in the right direction and I'll take it from there. No results.
If and when I ever get a signup, I assure you my job will be sharing it with my downline and work as closely as I can with them. 
Right now I'm very discouraged, after a week of intently working to discover what works in marketing GDI.
As a website developer, not a Market Expert, I'm fully able to follow up with what works. I can signup two personal contacts today, but how do I tell them how to succeed quickly, if my upline won't work with me?

I have a question? Doesn't it make more sense for upline sponsors, consistantly on the leaderboard, to share what they are doing with their downline folks?
It seems to me, by duplicating their marketing strategies both upline and downline business would grow faster.
A win/win situation.
What happened to upline helping downline to earn 80% of income from 10% of other's work?