yes yes, your project is great, but your personal behavior here actually keeps me from liking it.
BEP wasn't excluded. It was simply not included because noone nominated it.
You come in here claiming
This isn't my project. It is a community built and maintained educational effort seeking to both globalize and benefit everyone in the Crypto-Currency community. We are even reaching out to altcoins and projects like BitMessage to better broadcast their efforts and unique utility. I get defensive whenever our project is excluded from a list like this because it's more than an attack on me, it's an attack on the now 25 volunteers who have committed their time without compensation to help us advance BEP's goals.
because of this.
That's clearly discrediting all other projects on the list.
wtf, dude? That's just unbelievably arrogant.
What is arrogant is to build a list without any effort to market nominations for some reasonable period of time (say a month) and then say its a representative list of innovative projects. You say BEP wasn't nominated, BEP wasn't even aware of this until just a few days ago nor were our thousands of students. I say it's fluff because this appears to simply be a vanity poll without any representative sample of the community as a whole. There are a lot of projects not on this list gathering huge community excitement, but I guess they weren't nominated.
Have fun with your vanity poll, I have no more time for this thread.