I likewise believe that as long as coins like Dash exist and don't uphold the highest standard of transparency, fairness, and ethics, that will be used to attack crypto generally, setting back the movement overall, rather than helping it. If people even know about coins other than Bitcoin (and possibly Litecoin, maybe Ethereum now), most of what they've heard is that they are a bunch of pump-and-dump premine, instamine, etc. scams and they want nothing to do with it. Dash does not help that cause at all
Why do you insist it's Dash's responsibility to change whether people view Bitcoin as ponzi or not?
Dash has enough transparency. If you're demanding to know how much each dev owns for example then sorry, I'm afraid it's not gonna happen.
Fairness - very subjective. Life is not fair. Miss the lunch and you miss the lunch. Don't buy cheap and miss the profits. There's always someone to complain about something.
Highest standard of ethics - is that standard defined by you?
Hiding behind a bunch of renames and then editing the original parameters and renames out of the OP are not going to fix this problem.
There's only so much that an OP can contain, and if a project has developments happening it becomes impossible to drag the whole history in that one post while keeping it up to date. It's entirely possible it's not always about "hiding" something.