To be fair, do you really expect a community as nerdy as this not to engage in pedantry about semantics? I would anticipate that in every discussion, inflammatory or not (I might even participate).
Kind of beside the point, because pedantry about semantics with respect to "what kind of scam/fraud/etc was it that lost $42M of user's funds" leads directly to flamewar-style threads, which is what can reasonable cause a story to be deranked due to and anti-flamewar filter.
