Black(one of the devs) Admits on Saturday you hadn't announced it yet. With no announcement, but people mining, that's a premine to the announcement.
I was mining too before this announcement. Am I part of the dev team now?
In the announcement it doesn't that they were "not premined", so in a sense I can understand, but it lacks sincerity. The team is not transparent by doing that, it doesn't matter who mined it - the fact is, it was mined before it was announced, that's literally the definition of a premine.
Now it's also stated in the ANN that rewards will reduce after block 150,000 and now take into account that it's almost at block 100,000 after 1 day of this announcement. Horrible etiquette and because of this I don't plan on doing anything with this project.

Yeah, agreed. Dev should have included that information in the ANN. The idea for the project is nice but it wasn't thoroughly planned. Half of the info on the website is still placeholder text and there is yet to be a white paper.