I really honestly don't get it. We have a developer who had an idea on how to make bitcoin better. It grew out of him from all the recent (at that time) scandals and realizations that Bitcoin wasn't at all private. So being the brilliant young man that was anxious to get started, he starts an experiment here. People see what he is doing and start supporting him. It starts to get serious, with serious money being spent, so he realizes people are counting on him, so he gets serious and promises to dedicates 2 years of his life to this project.
In the mean time, not everything went as planned. The original 24 hours spilled unintentionally, much coin. But it was launched, and he had a group of people on board. To stop at that point (about a week later when the block chain explorer was created and he could see what happened and how much was spilled) was not really an option. Those people would have gotten pissed and left. In hind sight, all those coins were sold, very cheap, spreading the investment in darkcoin to many other people. Cheap "instamined" coins actually gave Darkcoin a fantastic distribution. In fact, as time went on, I'm now convinced it is one of the reasons Darkcoin took off in the first place. As people found out about the project, and it's exciting developer, they also found investing in some coins wasn't expensive and dove in on a leap of faith. Then discovered they didn't want to leave the project and stayed.
But back to this John Lennon song. I assume you are saying that the DarkCoin project has bad karma. Honestly, I can't see why anyone would say that. It's been a great project with real innovation and will make a huge difference in this world, even if another future coin takes off with Evan's Darkcoin ideas. Karma works both ways you know
Needless to say, my ignore list continues to grow.