It's almost funny to see so many newbie and junior accounts shouting the word "scam" in connection to Deeponion. If they are Newbies or Juniors either they are new in the game and they have no clue of what they are talking about, ot they are sockpuppets of people who have probably already posted too much in this thread and now they want to create the illusion that other people are sharing their delusions.
I'm shouting scam and I'm a bit older here.
The number one problem is that DO have been claiming to be 100% untraceable for a year now, which we know is not true. They are peddling a lie. How do you call that? Of course there is plenty other proof of other stuff in this thread from staking undistributed funds to faking an account hacking to get rid of -16 trust. The fact that they heavy moderate everything to keep a cheerful mood doen't help either.
You clearly do not follow DeepOnion. Show me where they have been claiming for over a year that it's untraceable. Because I have never seem them claim that they are 100% anonymous, since being 100% anonymous is what they are aiming for, with on going development. During the past year adding stealth addresses, Deepvault, and and in a month or two DeepSend, to finally have it be 100% anonymous? How could they be claiming something that they are actively working on. That wouldn't make sense. So as a person who has been following since August, I can 100% say that what you said about that is not true. You're pulling out FUD claims that you might have heard in the past, having very limited knowledge about DeepOnion.
Then there's the hacked account issues. They tried getting ownership back of that account for around two weeks, but the admins didn't respond to their request. In the meantime the hacker is making a joke of the Ann thread. For two weeks. What are they supposed to do? Should they not create a new one. But the point is that for your theory to be true, then that means that the bitcointalk moderators would have to be in alliance with DeepOnion by not communicating back with them, so that two weeks later they would have to make a new account.
Then look at the active and high quality forum
https://deeponion.org/community/ the herculean effort to prevent alt account from abusing the coin, the development of Vote Central. The insane amount of work that I cannot even put in to words, and you're telling me this is all a scam to dump the coin, which never happened after the air drop was done. Just last night they introduced an updated whitepaper
https://deeponion.org/White-Paper.pdf. A scammer would not put so much work into creating such a quality whitepaper.
It would literally be like say Nintendo spending a billion dollars, and thousands of man hours to create the Nintendo Switch, only to dump all their shares, destroying the company in the process, as well as a finished product, and destroying a great future and moon potential.
Stop quarrelling, guys. Only time will show who was right and who was wrong. All of us know some projects, which was resurrected by community members, when all other thought that project was already dead. Look at PCN for example. Even if Rainbow is scammer, project has a lot of guys who can continue development without him.
So I say time will show.