You've obviously researched this, would be nice to hear more of your views as you already educated me on it somewhat.

Well it really is people have done nothing or hugely over reacted. I have had our own clients emailing us requesting permission to keep our email details??? I spoke to a firm of accountants who will only use post because it is not covered by GDPR??? They seemed to think that you had to stop sending stuff by emails. I guess your view is that people join a chat site to communicate so there is a bit of an soft opt into Arb Talk?

Everybody seems to have panicked. 

I only keep minimal details that means that I can comply with UK Tax Accounting laws and information that backs up my working records.

This whole gdpr thing basically came to nothing in the end. Never heard of a single person prosecuted yet