Allow me to further explain where I'm coming from. I don't frequent Starbucks, FWIW.

As a speculative miner who has been involved from very early on, I can only say that my experience with the loosely affiliated dev team, which is also running a popular and robust mining pool, has yet to do anything that would lead me to believe anything but their stated truest intent. I don't see the same "public perception" that you see, which is apparently based on your impression of what they lack in marketing savvy.

Admittedly, at the moment, if you're interested in the coin, you are currently probably just mining it (not trading). If you haven't mined it lately, it's going to be less likely that you're watching development all that closely, let's be honest. That's a problem I believe will work itself out over due time. By all signs, these guys are devs, not marketers. They do spend time with the mining community on Discord, and their support and altruism on their mining pool is sturdy as I've seen anywhere else.  It's very early for this coin, and these guys clearly feel no pressure to do something they're not interested in pursuing. Right now, they're more interested in the tech than the trading aspects of the coin. Me too.

As point of fact, there is an interesting and still quiet effort they've made strides on that will setup POLY as a sort of currency that can be used to trade in masternode sharing services. Maybe that kind of thing doesn't interest you, and that's certainly cool. But, it's an interesting concept to me, and one that I believe will eventually see a track record of regular development. You can learn more if you're interested on their Discord channel - ask some questions, and you'll get better answers than what I can provide, I'm sure.

Maybe you could both think about actually contributing something that provides any shred of credibility to your negative claims? How is it a scam? What virus scanner? What kind of virus? Are you sure you're not just high?

This is a real sleeper crypto, with solid tech, a well thought-out road map and it's easily mined. Rewards for mining will never be higher than they are for the next few weeks. This is a rare opportunity to get in early on what is sure to be a successful coin.

If you are only looking at coins for their price, and not their promise, then you're only in it for the short-term, and a long-term project like POLY probably isn't a good fit for you, so you can look elsewhere at pump-n-dump coin du jour. I don't mean to tell you to take a hike or anything, but rapid gain speculation isn't really the focus of those most interested in Polytimos.

Yes.  https://discord.gg/NQgP2KX

Whitepaper and Philosophy papers now being finalized. https://forum.polytimos.net/topic/117/white-paper-and-philosophy-of-polytimos-community-philosophy-in-crypto-papers-are-both-finished/2

The developer is still active, but focused on Polyshield, which is a new masternode sharing service that they're building around Polytimos coin. While they're working on it, the value of the coin has dropped a lot, since it seems the marketing effort has to take a backseat. (this has been GREAT for mining)

In the meanwhile, remember it's a fair release and easily mined. And, you get a pretty fair shake on Polyshield if you want to participate in MN sharing (interestingly, there's no MN feature for Polytimos itself). You can apply your POLY to a decent satoshi value in whichever other coin's masternode you want to invest in.

Polyshield is still in Alpha, but you can request early access on their forum:  https://forum.polytimos.net/category/5/polytimos-services

According to their whitepaper, block rewards will actually be increased in April (twice). http://www.scriv.network/docs/SCRIV-WP.pdf