We wanted to be transparent and put the 2% openly in the OP, you guys didn't copy the important part though (to be used for giveaways, bounty's, ongoing support/dev, dist., etc.). It would be silly to simply dump first chance you got or anyone got, we'd be back to square one starting over fast. We want to create enough to distribute and then have mining still be at a rate where these have some rarity to them and not have a super short lifecycle or blanket the market with them or start with zero/no incentive for anyone.
There has to be a balance and we figured 2% would be good and healthy for all + enough to give away to make people want to hold for longevity.
Feedback appreciated as always. We expected to see this brought up and are open to suggestions.
One of the problems with pre-mining is a lack of transparency.
I think you can really do very well with the community if you show a good level of transparency. That takes extra effort, but isn't really all that hard. You've got the Export function to get all that info fast, and you can then show it in the blockchain.
I know that you can't really have 110% solid plans, but those that are a bit more mature and that understand the topic a bit better will likely understand.
You're going to get flak no matter what you do, but if you are really genuine, a bit of transparency will only help.