I 100% agree with everything @justtryme90 said.
@solarguy: From the beginning, I thought it was clear to you that your ideas, the contest, and all the rest should be run through the @steemstem account so that the potential rewards could be redistributed to the community (note also that we were ready to fund your contest from the steemstem account too).
If all of this was not clear to you, I can only be sorry. We have never rejected you and you decided to leave by your own. In the same way that if you want to come back one day, you will always be welcome. Your writings are good and I like them very much. And note that we have never run this contest, as this was your ideas. Not ours.
I also want to emphasize that none of the steemstem people has never taken any single penny out of the project (it is the opposite actually, all of us have injected time and money into the project).
PS: I only remove my vote from your post because of those unfair remarks towards @steemstem. I also have not commented before because... the week-end is the week-end ^^