Here or on your blog?
It's not my blog, it's MPs blog. I mean okay, I get it, you're new, as far as you're concerned all the names on the screen are equal and the same, names on the screen, composing a really flat reality. This however is not a fact, just an artifact reflecting your candor.
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Sooo I say payout has no relation, and bring as proof an actual instance where less work with generous payout (March BTC ~= 2.5 June BTC) failed to go anywhere. Your answer to this is that...wait. Did you even logically consider what's going on here? Not really, huh.
You didnt answer my question. I asked if you advertised the contest here or your blog. My point was that I doubt many artists frequent your blog, because it looks like more of a financial business thing. Obviously where you advertise your contest makes a big difference, and that's probably a factor in why you got barely any entries. Anybody I know would jump at a contest for 10btc for photoshopping someone into a picture. You should have posted it here, you would have had so many entries you wouldn't know what to do with them.
Then again, I looked at the 3 small drawings contest and I was surprised at the small amount of entries there too. I would have entered the shit out of it if I had saw it, the same with the rape contest. I guess there's not that many bitcoin artists in general. I wonder why you thought this splash screen contest would get more entries, though, with much less payout and a much more difficult project?
That thread is another good reason why spec work is usually bad though... there were a few decent unicorn entries and you didn't like any of them. Whats good is subjective, so its up to your whim.
Stop focusing on management details, such as what the payout is and how MP structures things. It's obviously not your strong point. You say you're an artist, do that then, do it well, complain if you're mistreated and after you're mistreated rather than before on the grounds that you might be.
And you don't complain that artists are lazy and entitled if people dont want to enter your contest. I'm done here, I just think we will have to disagree. How long is this contest open for?