Agreed - I think that if @steemitblog/Steemit Inc. were to use the top banner of the website (similar to what was done when the team was informing the community of the HF20 outages) to inform all users of important contests like this, we would have a much better chance of getting the best voting turn out from the community! At the very least, having @steemitblog make a post at the start of one of these contests would be a great way to raise awareness!

I personally only found out about this netcoins contest with two days remaining, meaning that I couldn't vote as much as I would have liked, but I'm just glad that we all came together for the win! Again, this is a great idea - hopefully others will agree!