I had not look on HEX also, I will take a look details about it if I have free time. Spreading FUD against bitcoin on bitcointalk community is really untrustworthy behaviour in my opinion.
Then half of altcoin board should be red - many shitcoin bagholders disparage Bitcoin, probably to make themselves feel better...
I think there are two issues here: (1) promoting a scam, which may or may not be worth a neg depending on the details; (2) badmouthing Bitcoin, which is not worth a neg. Those two often go together but that still doesn't mean that merely saying bad things about Bitcoin deserves a neg. So in this case it might be just semantics, if Hex is a scam. But I still want to be able to say that Bitcoin is stupid without getting negged to -9999.