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This further leads to the belief that such a poll was rigged or voted on by sockpuppet accounts controlled by the instaminers.
This cuts for Moneor as well.
There was a community vote to continue with the Monero project and not fork, fix, start again.
There was a community vote to not reduce the high initial emissions, that is why Monero now has 7m coins in 12 months, and DASH has 5m in 14months.
Using your inflammatory logic, there could have been just a few people mining all of Moneros first 1m-2m coins and the crippled code and high initial hash rate could be a handful of people and a mass of socketpuppets giving the impression of a regular community, with the odd person joining in to a 'popular' coin.
So if you wish to assert Darkcoin is a scam, you have to also own the scam launch code of Monero.