there are people here that are critical and call a scam a scam - it's for these people you come here.
Bitshares now spamming the forum won't help a lot. It didn't ann here - i won't buy it.
Coins exclusively using the own forum is a good way to control the conversation. I really save myself the headache.
it didn't ann here but protoshares/bitshare-pts has been on coinmarketcap forever.
this thread pointed out the existence of the plans to make bitsharesx:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313873.0there have been plenty of other thread talking about it during that time too.
even some threads desperately trying to point out that AGS donation was coming to a close.
here's a post mentioning the february 28th snapshot
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=476312.0anybody interested in alt-coins had PLENTY of time to learn about the ideas behind bitshares, and plenty of time to invest by buying PTS. more time than any other alt. you're right, there was no formal ANN. do you really need a formal ANN to recognize a good idea when you see it?