While doing so, beware of self moderated threads as the starter of that topic can delete any hostile messages.
And the forum review might not be always sufficient to make a decision as there have been cases of hyped project in this forum and some even endorsed by popular forum figures turned out to be scam. Some prominent DT members and I guess a staff member too lost their position just for promoting fake ICOs knowingly. So, it's better to look at every aspects.
I think you shouldn't be on guard with self moderated. Most time, people just don't like off-topic or signature the only poster make their thread hard to keep track of conversations. Scammers don't have any viable tool in bitcointalk to push their thing and this is why I like to stay at here.