I also noticed it when whale mentioned it. I am by no means a whale but when I saw the potential of it I liquidated half my online coin portfolio to buy over 1k coins. I had such a crap trading week I decided to take a risk and I alerted tons of peep on skype, on fb in the trollbox to take a look. Everyone had equal chance to buy and not only that the Committee was only formed when the DEV realized how big the coin got in popularity and when peeps were offering their service and assistance for the coin which = COMMUNITY. I also gave away a fair amount of coin yesterday too and if I do well trading.I will help more peeps and give out more coins.
I really wish I had done the same. Most of my coins are in Drk and I am really hesitant to liquidate them. And I'm a guppy-sized trader, so I may have a couple of btc in Drk, but that's sort of it, besides the recent freebie com/itc stakes (and a decent proportion of those were spent on Drk).
I did end up selling some of my itc stake + extra junk I had about, to get 100 coins during the ipo. Of course now I wish I just sold every stake I had leftover and got at least 500 or so. But I guess if we knew what to always do, we'd all be super rich by now.
I really like how it was set up on poloniex though. Anyone could get in at ipo prices, no need for escrow or some promise of future coins. Anyone could just log in and buy, so it seemed like a much more reliable and fair way to distribute than most ipo offerings.