A year ago Emercoin made a great announcement ... in the search of plenty of creative ideas in order to boost the development of Emercoin and the Emercoin blockchain, sadly their thread (and linked to that the payout) was hardly neglected after the ideas came in:
Play The 1000 Idea Emercoin Contest and win EMC (with 5000 EMC prize pool)-
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1415449.0This thread, the advertisement of giving out 5000 EMC was opened up by Fixx representing EmerFund, but after collecting the creative ideas, only very tiny payouts were given out - by far not as much as 5000 EMC. If the contest does not end properly and as promoted it does look very much like a scam contest, which does not shine a bright light on EMC.
Prizes:
5000 EMC Total prize pool
The prize pool will be distributed regardless of the number of ideas received. Example: If we receive 10 ideas total then each submitted idea will receive 500 EMC
Fixx is since then clearly playing the "as more time passes no contestant will remember the contest" card in order to save up to a few thousand Emercoin. I guess only 1/5 was given out. Here is a sum up of all payouts linked to the ideas of this thread (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1415449.msg15284101#msg15284101) but it also ran in a Russian thread.
But behind these dozen ideas a lot of thoughts and hours of hard and creative work were linked, so an appreciation of this collective brainstorming is long overdue. I personally spent an awful of hours on my posts (if anyone wonders: I lost access to my bitcointalk account starsnshamrocks).
It was promoted by KarmaShark as the easiest and most rewarding way to receive free EMC back then:
... This is the type of brainstorming we are looking to conjure up here in the 1000 Idea Emercoin contest. There has never been an easier and more rewarding way to get free EMC.
I ask you Emercoin community and Emercoin team to live up to your standards, to have a looks inside the thread, Fixx and EmerFund to keep your words, KarmaShark to check up on this as you promoted this heavily.
Please update this thread and finish off the payouts. It is long overdue.