No kidding. I for one am happy to see a company that invests time in their userbase. Heck, if Opera hadn't noticed how many people on SprintUsers.com were using the Norsk version of Opera Mini when it was still in version 0.8 we might still not have had an English version of Opera Mini.
Yes, it's marketing, but so is the author Slide 2 Play when he/she announces a new version. Or how about sMMS?
They made two posts. One saying, "HEY! Contest!" the other saying, "Hey! Contest over!"
Lay off.
cmart4 may have a point though....