I remember when Elephantcoin (ELP) was launched, people bashed it for having premined 0.4%. But now I found the recent launched coins become ridiculous in premining, often hiding it under some obscure and nice names, such as donations, bounty or even tax. And strangely enough, I don't see a lot bashing or trolling on these coins, which I think would go to trash can, what leads me to believe is that many of the trolling in this forum are controlled by certain people.
Let me give two examples:
1. ADT, Androids Tokens:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/androidstokens-adt-proof-of-stake-coin-66-billion-trade-on-cryptsy-276884in the thread it is said that 2% premine, which is already huge, but if you look at the blockexplorer, Block 1 has 3.6 billion coins, a whopping 5% (3.6/66) premine!
http://androidstokens.kicks-ass.net/block_crawler.php?transaction=f43c8979d3052ffd43d79f4634786cf370e4537dad26c499e8ef2369bf4793272. GLB, Globe - the recent launched one
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-glbglobe-one-currency-for-one-globe-polished-and-ready-for-action-360255takes 20% "tax", lmao, tax... really makes me laugh...
all I can say is that the dev of alt coins become desperate, they just try to get max possible out of the coins they made, and try to fool people under a nice name.
Same thing was seen before, for coins like Stablecoin, Argentum etc, with nice writings, nice websites etc, under which if you look carefully you find huge premines. What surprise is that this now becomes public, and there's no problem to declare 2% or 20%.
This is sad. I am ok for a little premine (ie less than 1%), anyway we should not expect free work from dev. But 5%? 20%?? this really gets me, anyway I never mine coins like this. The world is big, haha.