Also, Smooth looks like you too have a personal newbie

1. I have one and only one login on this forum site, unless you count the monero shared login, to which I have access (but rarely use, and then, so far at least, only to help maintain the information posts). EDIT: Nor have I ever in the past had any other logins.
2. I agree that pump-and-dump has gotten much harder, as the community has learned to avoid premines and such. This is a good thing.
As far as the bytecoin devs, it this is in fact what happened, my guess is that they got the idea to put a little public gloss on their project and try to cash out of their coins with a PnD some time ago, when coin prices were higher and the healthy skepticism toward premines and other PnD schemes had not matured to where it is now.
Take a look at the timeline. Web site first appeared according to wayback in late February and the first post here was in early March. Allow a month or two to get ready to go public and that places us right back in the near the peak btc+alt bubble in late 2013 or very early 2014.
I was mainly interested in cryptonote as I was considering invseting in Monero. Your association with Monero is the reason I won't be purchasing any.