I was at the NYC event. The most blatant market manipulation I have observed was the smear campaign which followed. I have been quiet because I don't like to encourage people to sell, because they will probably harm themselves if they do so, yet I anticipated that the reaction cycle would be adverse to price, once I saw the event, so I have been lying low. I have now begun to buy again, and so I feel my influence is now less likely to harm anyone.
I am still very saddened by the intense negative emotion that has been expressed here. Surely you must see that such effusions are harmful to yourself. While you cannot undo the damage you caused to yourself, at least learn from this, and do not let facile emotions dictate words and deeds so incautiously in future.
As for fluffyponyza's tweets, I think they were very ill-considered. It seems particularly poor taste to say that pre-announcements would be unethical, after having made a pre-announcement. The fact that it was intended as a deceit does not make it more ethical. The logic of that is so bizarrely twisted that it saddens me.
I think the marvelous progress made by endogenic on iOS and Android support is the truly newsworthy part of the presentation. Surae's discussion of the process of cryptographic review was also of greater importance than fluffyponyza's troll. Unfortunately these are being overlooked, because they can not be exploited to make you puke up cheap coins.
I made a few comments here and over in the monero sub (under a different name). I am not normally someone who comments a great deal - I prefer to observe since I feel I mostly don't have a great deal of import to say. FP's troll, however, spurred me like few other things have done. I won't rehash it but I think what upset me the most is that I feel that trolling is a form of bullying, which I detest. It's designed to inhibit discussion and serves no purpose other than to shame and ridicule others.
I, like many others here, have a lot of money at stake. I started buying in late 2015 and I have Monero numbering in the five figures at an average cost of less than $0.60. I have made a lot of money from Monero and I am grateful for that but I couldn't care less about the recent fall in price. It will go up again as it always does. My reaction was entirely due to his behavior, not the consequences of it.
All that said, I will add this: My wife and I have often discussed what she should do if I were to suddenly die - she knows and cares very little about our monero wallet. I've told her to keep the seed safe and, should she need help, to message FluffyPony and he would help her, honestly and truthfully. That advice still stands.