Smooth, the only reason you are here is because you want to make a competitor look bad, if this were a thread criticizing monero or aeon, I think you would most likely have agreed with my post.
Neither Monero nor AEON has a moderated ANN thread, so you are free to discuss the positives and negatives those coins on their own ANN threads without any actual or appearance of thread-starter bias. Thus there is no need for an "uncensored" discussion thread about them. That is not the case for Shadow.
As for making a competitor look bad, I don't even consider Shadow much of a competitor as it is a proof-of-stake coin and a Bitcoin fork. I don't mean that as a put down either, it is just a completely different market segment. And in fact one of my recent posts on this thread has been in support of Shadow, and I've commented in support of it on various occasions in the past.
I'm mostly in favor of uncensored discussion and letting the chips fall where they may.
As for calling a moderated thread a red flag well, should I start spamming the fuck out of this thread with memes? Would that make it obvious why a coin can't keep an un-moderated thread?
Both Monero and AEON (and many other coins) have unmoderated ANN threads which proves your statement untrue. Yes, they've had their issues with spam, trolling, etc. but open discussion coupled with the hard work of the neutral forum mods enforcing general forum rules generally keeps it under control.
Child_Harold is now going out of his way to slander a specific project
If his claims are untrue or unsupported that should be apparent to the reader. I suggest you comment on the merits to that end instead of attacking him and his motives.