One example was Bancor, another was Status (not performing that bad though), and of course EOS. With those all waiting for exchanges and then buying would have been way more profitable. The viewcount thing is interesting but I also dont know how to do it.


I am also avoiding Telegram chats with 3k+ members, its usually a bad sign, at least I think so.


Vouch for this! This is also my indicator number one for the evaluation of an ICO (after whitepaper etc). If the team in there is supportive and proactive its way more likely that hte project will have success. But the size of the group does not matter at all, because there are ways for ICO's nowadays to make telegram groups bigger than they would be by organic growth. They make airdrops for people to join, they lure people with some other tricks, there are even people who offer their "service" on bitcointalk to add strangers to your group for a little BTC. I saw it happen the other way around. I was added to a telegram group (before I turned off that people can invite me) that had 3k+ members, the team was proactive and I was like yeah ok why not lets see what happens and stayed in the group. Suddenly the group was closed (most likely because there were too many people reporting it as spam) and one week later or so the group reopened again, guess what: it shrinked from the 3k+ to little under 200 members. So they bought their groupmembers or used someones "add-service". Always be suspicious, thats what I learnt.