Most exchanges are doing that, its just that the bigger they are, the bigger coins they can scam, pump/dump etc.
And yes i agree that it was a mistake on my part, that i did not do an extensive research about HitBTC. Now that i am digging in, i am finding all the problems.
But what amazes me is that in order to find this problems, you actually need to take your time and search a lot.
Why are there no news on the big crypto pages? Why are there so few posts in Twitter/FB about this- from all the "famous" guys in crypto...
If this does not go public - there will be more and more burned users and eventually there will be another mtgox... but this time it will be much worse...
Tell your friends and share the news!
You are right. The old story, the same problem

I hope people will learn from these sour lessons.