Damn... that was pretty close!!
Ohh i did not even see a poll, it was all broken, i had 2 options but were not able to vote on any of Them so instead i posted for PINK so my voice isnt even in the polls:/
Yep, couldn't vote either, but my opinion was pretty clear anyway and was curious about the results. I am a little surprised though.
But as I am reading the posts, it seems to me that people are really mostly worried about the confusion and so to say losing the cryptocurrency feel or rather first hand communication of the fact that it is a cryptocurrency. I made my own little research yesterday and was asking people around me whether they know what is bitcoin. It was mostly people of age 30+, but guess what, most of the people don't even know what Bitcoin is. And a long explanation of what a cryptocurrency is had to follow. The coin behind it would have no meaning for most of people in the real world anyway. Even if they knew what Bitcoin is, they would probably be very surprised that there are actually other currencies like BTC. The penetration of these information throughout the market is just still too low and the job is yet to be done.
What I am trying to say is, that the coin behind name would give people actually no idea of what it is anyway and it seems to me, that when trying to achieve higher recognition of the "brand" Pink, due to the low exposure of normal people to the whole cryptoworld, it could be communicated IE this way:
PINK
The Cryptocurrency.
Anyway, we have to put together a solid overall strategy, I'll try to help with that later, but hell these are just too busy days. Respect to Barabbas and his ideas, but I think that before jumping into something like that a really deep strategy should be evolved and the actions of this size would have to fit precisely into that.
I am not talking just marketing as the word itself sounds almost as cursing nowadays, when it's meaning shrink to fooling people that they need something they actually don't and hide the unpleasant information along the way. This is not a Pink way.
Anyway I am talking about overall business model which of course has to include basic ideas, objectives, and supporting development and communication strategies. Before something like that is done, huge and costly actions would probably mean a waste of money and time of people involved.
True a lot of coins didn't need a proper strategy, but you do not want to bet on luck when giving it so much effort and time already.
Damn... that was pretty close!!
Read the thread though. Some people couldn't vote :S Not good with voting so close.
People that are clearly members of the community, like 0wl, SpockSkywalker, Anoxxy, and CountofMonteCrypto, and pretty much all of our twitter following that doesn't frequent btctalk were excluded because of their newbie status on bitcointalk. Even Jyap wouldn't have been able to vote, had he tried. Our nature of drawing new people into Crypto and PinkCoin kind of bit us on this one I think. And with a 1 vote spread... I don't know. It just isn't fair.
Talking with the other devs about possible solutions. Stay tuned.
Lol, it's true. I follow the thread and I would have voted for keeping "Pinkcoin" but I couldn't vote
Lol. So with my vote it would have been and even poll.
With all respect to you Jyap, since it wasn't just you who couldn't vote, nobody can tell whether your vote would change anything.