[sanderjd]

Maybe we read different articles (or different comments) but my sense is that commenters here as a whole were earlier and are more consistent in their criticism and dismissal of "crypto" scams. I'd already been reading warnings here for a year or two by the time I started seeing this stuff mindlessly hocked in mainstream sources.

(Your broader point may be right, I just don't think the current crop of scams is a great example.)