SISAR,

You mention "pumping a coin" like that is a bad thing.  I believe that says more about you than it does about this community.  Did the plethora of useless alt coins that were "pumped" give you the perception that when you see similar coincident behaviour you are also witnessing another useless alt?  Creating hype and optimism and pumping a coin is totally valid if one believes in the idea.  If I understand your logic I suppose you can tell a product is a scam by the number of advertisements it has and the legit products would be all the ones you never heard of cause no body was excited enough to tell you about them?