Quote from: ccs5t on July 14, 2016, 01:50:30 PM

Quote from: patmast3r on July 13, 2016, 05:22:36 PM

Quote from: ccs5t on July 13, 2016, 03:58:49 PM

I mean I'm not really sure how I could have resolved it. Really bad situation, I had to focus on my military orders and just assumed I would be covered with my .7 nemstake.

Obviously the distribution process wasn't perfect and I get that for people in the military in can be especially hard to keep up with stuff like this. Here's how other people in the military solved it though: During that close to one year of redemption they dropped me a pm and I handled the redemption for them. 1 pm is all it took. I think around 5 people contacted me either during their deployment or because they knew they were going to be deployed soon and couldn't participate in the normal process. I understand that even that can be too much to ask during deployment but you asked for a way to resolve it - that's what worked for other people. Obviously they had to trust me but there wasn't a whole lot they had to lose.
It's not like the people handling the distribution were totally unreasonable tyrants. It was simply a process that turned out to be imperfect. There had to be deadlines because the unclaimed stakes were supposed to go to funds that the team knew were needed for sustainable future development and investments into the project. Noone pocketed those stakes. At some point people had better things to do than handling distribution a year after this whole thing started. It sounds harsh but that's just how it was.

Too bad that didnt work out for me. Just seems like an unfair solution. Why should the stakes ever expire for people who donated to the project?

It does seem unfair, but anyone who bought in at the start knew they were buying into a plan without any code behind it. The ethereum ICO was similar, but it gave you a sort of redemption code you could claim your coins with. Ideally NEM should have given out similar codes, but it's distribution wasn't as professional as ethereum's.