That is the exact same way Vericoin eventually died.
They closed their bitcointalk ANN due to the so called FUD and started their own forum.
The price went from 44000 sat to 7000 sat.
Startcoin becoming Vericoin 2.0
While I am at it there were some very nice promises made a couple of weeks ago by Karl, Simon and Max.
Did they deliver?
With the high level of emotional investment you have in StartCoin why did you sell?