Well...I've officially launched the first one today. I'm sure there will be some hickups along the way but I'm confident this community will bring it togather and make it work(if anyone signs up).
I"m taking the money out of my pocket for this contest, but I'd love to have one every couple months, and maybe in the future we can do some kind of "paypal" donation to the prize pool...but for now I just want to sponsor it myself till I work any bugs out.
As far as trust for me...who knows...I hope at least 10 people will participate and trust that I"ll pay out...but thats a tough thing to earn. I'm hoping after the first successful payout that it will generate some buzz and comfort with the idea.
I'm sure there will be alot of good creative people out there who may be thinking "yeah right..this guys gunna just give away the money" and not waste thier time...but I guess ya gotta start somewhere. We'll see.
But it's official anyhow. You guys in this thread should at least throw one up there for fun...some real basic ones if you want just to help show participation. Put a link back to your site in it of course. Be creative as you can cause I doubt many will enter the frist go around :->, but you'll get some free advertsing.
As soon as a couple people register and skin it, I"ll post a nice set of links to the entires right off the main page of my site I guess. I don't get crazy traffic yet, but every little bit helps.
And thanks for your input everyone. These are good ideas. Maybe we can collectivly come up with a cool site with some free skins for the world and get some more newbies out there to flex thier creative side!