Anyone can recommend exchanges that are not known to be scams... Out of every 10 exchanges, there is usually 9 likely shady ones. We use ScamAdviser to check if the exchange has negative reviews or any other warning signs. A lot of people try to recommend same exchanges over and over, even though I have already said that the exchange is known to have issues. If the exchange is relatively new (less than a year old), it makes sense to wait until the exchange is older to see if there will be any negative reviews.

Crex24 is one of the shady exchanges that has been suggested by many users. It is known to list coins that are worth so little that nobody wants to buy them and the exchange rate is a lot less than 1 satoshi. Crex24 is currently listing coins that win week long voting, but the votes have to be bought using small list of cryptocurrencies. They also give some free votes to active users. Most of the "coins" they have so far added for voting are ERC20 tokens that already have been listed on other exchanges and are listed on CoinMarketCap.

What comes to using premine for exchange listings, we will use the premine when value of TLO is high enough to cover exchange listings... Currently TLO is not worth enough so that full premine would cover listing fee for even small exchange.

For C-PatEx, I did pay half of the listing fee from my own personal funds and the other half was paid by one of the community members.

I remove or ban users from Discord, who insist our judgement of if some exchange is shady or not is unjustified. Ban will last unspecified time, but is never permanent. Anyone who gets removed, but not banned, is free to rejoin the server, but can get banned if tries to suggest more shady exchanges.

I don't remove users from Discord or Telegram just for fun, it's to avoid people flooding the server with comments that have no value to other users.