While I agree it turned out to seemingly be a scam, can you really blame the promoters? They promoted the platform as an affiliate should have. Although many people will disagree, I don't think many (if any) of them were close enough to the insiders of bitconnect to know ahead of time that bitconnect would go down the way it did. Everyone knew it would end eventually, but no one using bitconnect thought it would end this soon... I'm just saying. An affiliate marketer doesn't equal a scammer. No one was forced to invest in bitconnect.
Where in this post stated anyone one besides bitconnect was a scammer? They were "Shilling" this scam and the fact of that matter is, if you look at bitconnect's github, there are only 30 commits to their code when almost every other blockchain out there has literally thousands. There is no such thing as a perfectly coded blockchain. They continually need to fix bugs, optimize, and add new features which bitconnect clearly doesn't do.
So even though people that were promoting aren't really scammers, they were promoting a scam and made money doing it. Something people that follow what these type of people say should learn from and do their due diligence when investing rather than listening to people that really don't know what's going on.