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You have to consider that people got paid coming up with this nonsense.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

That is before looking at the new designs and how horrible they all are.

And the site! Is it 1996? Impossible to navigate. Tiny photos. Zero information about contest parameters or where the "birds and buildings" (all the same) came from.

There is enough info online, this is just the survey. Yes site looks like shit, but cool they ask the people.

The actual page announcing the contestants is terrible and missing the info I'm complaining about. The survey is arguably worse. It just ask people to choose among random bills. But that's not how the contest will work. They'll choose one artist's entire submission, not the most popular individual bills from the survey.

I don’t really get why this gets so much hate. Seems like this is the era of Eurohate.

I think it is great that people get asked for their opinion, why not.

It's a waste of resources to make something that exists worse.

In the big picture, the amount of resources poured into this contest is probably close to 0%.

Also why worse? Some great designs out there.

The existing designs are fine, are they not? Even if they only spent a single Euro on all of this, which I doubt, it would still be a wasted Euro.

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