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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.
Look, if you don't have a clue about any of this, stop.
The poll done by Monero was not done by voting on an obscure(Which can be easily rigged as shown by Dash), it was done by that MEW membership procedure so that things like sockpuppet voting wouldn't happen. You would actually go and +1 or -1 while giving your reasons as to why, all of which I observed while staying relatively low in the cryposcene.
Your twisted logic is highly irrational. As was said a million times before, Monero did not have any of it's core parameters changed, unlike Dash, so in that respect they cannot be compared.