as I said before I dont think XMR is a scam.....

 maybe a little fishy in its original distribution, but Ill throw Dash and hell almost all other altcoins into that same boat....

cryptonote tech is a very useful anon tech, and monero seems to be one of the best decentralized versions of it.  
the only reason I pulled out of XMR was because I have been on the other side of their constant badgering, (and not only in VNL, I was a supporter of XMR in its early days, and had dreams of becoming an XMR whale once apon a time), but now am tired of how as a community they have become destructive to bitcointalk and altcoins in general.

if you want to get a better read on this topic remove all the usual sockpuppet flamers ie. ignore icebreaker othe, smoothie, vanderi etc the guys who yell scam at anything not ProXMR.
there are some good replys from smooth and other XMR supporters though.

as per usual though at least half of the stuff in here is nonsense and rhetoric.

have fun.

side note:  I bet I am not the only one who has decided to stay away from XMR because of this, there constant flaming has done the project way more damage than good, and the market agrees with me.