...PMed everyone on btt twice...
I can vouch for one of them personally. Back then, kodtycoon asked for my help in throwing together a script that would PM everyone on the NEM stakeholder list. (He ran it on his own machine, iirc.) I still have that script in my backup drive.
true story. i can screen shot my sent box if anyone should doubt. its literally hundreds of pages of private mails, accrued over days upon days of continuously running the script. btt messaging limitations meant messages had to be sent much much slower than was optimal.
hell, heres a screen shot for anyone who wants proof that every possible effort to reach stake holders was taken:
https://i.imgur.com/e40cBIj.png?120 mails per page * 628 pages = 12560 messages. the VAST majority of which were emails sent to nem stake holders.
I appreciate the fact that you made a great effort... what I don't appreciate is that the original promise wasn't delivered on and that once you have put in what you deemed to be "enough work", you think that all is now right because you can get away with it.
That's the way of the world... right?
I'm glad your conscience is clear. Mine wouldn't be. And this summarizes two kinds of people you get in the world - those who keep their promises and those who don't. The promise here was a stake - nothing was mentioned of deadlines or timelines until it became convenient.
Even so, I did check in, and I did follow the rules, and I still couldn't claim. I ask about it in the forums, and all I get is a "no too late". No explanation, no link to a document where it was discussed or someone explains what, why or how. Just "No"'.
To add insult to injury, my account gets deleted, also my posts, and you block the IP of the whole shared office space where I work. That creates an impression of me bringing up a touchy subject that nobody is willing to rationally talk about.
This being something so trivial, I would hate to think what would happen if a really important decision needed to be taken, and there was disagreement. Would the same people just delete or ban all the accounts of everyone who didn't agree, so they too can "wash their hands in innocence" and say - look! We have a unanimous victory! What a great community! We all agree! How wonderful!