It's impressive to see how well nextcoin.org has been handling the member base of nearly 5k mixed background folks. Such a bunch necessarily contains borderline nutcases and native troublemakers the resorts to deal with successfully are unfortunately few. By active moderation nextcoin.org is able to keep the level of discussion considerably higher and more focused than for instance the cluttered and depressingly incoherent thread of bitcointalk.org. I encourage visitors to nextcoin.org see this for themselves, ignore the sinister agenda that has lifted its head again and concentrate into constructive discussion where that's most effectively possible.
I agree, nextcoin.org has grown very lively. I haven't kept up with the moderation actions, so I can't say anything about whether speech is being stifled (Trolling and other behaviour of the kind also stifle's other people speech, so protecting against such behaviour is perfectly reasonable. But there are other ways of doing it besides moderation, e.g. ignore list or karma) I don't have any beef with dgex, or any exchange for that matter, since I don't use exchanges.
Personally I don't visit n
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coin.org much because of the lame name. Like, if fark.com didn't suck and had more discussion than reddit.com, I'd still prefer going to reddit.com. How about registering a cooler alternate domain?