A new forum is definitely needed.  This place is a dump, IMO (no offense to legit, honest members, no seriously, i mean no offense.  You legit, honest, professional members should not be offended by this post, and will probably agree) and the fact that this was one of the very first forums I came across when I was introduced to bitcoin, means that this forum should be representing bitcoin better and instead is representing bitcoin as a whole very poorly.  It definitely lacks professionalism on a massive scale. Scammers and hackers everywhere apparently, there is clearly illegal activity going on here, and the poll suggests it even more.  If this forum is allowing illegal activities I'm pretty much done coming here effective immediately.  While there is a lot of positive going on here, there's a lot of dirt.  Definitely not intending to offend anyone, but the truth is the truth, and that is the vibe I got from this forum pretty much as soon as I joined it.  I've made a few posts here, and I regret it quite honestly.  Not because I didn't get a positive outcome from my posts, but mostly due to the amount of dishonesty going on around here.  At first glance, coming to this forum tells an average user that bitcoin is a complete waste of time.  As for the demeanor of certain members of this community... well, there's nothing to say.  Pick a post, and read it.  These members are everywhere.  The more I read some of the conversations that go on here, the less I want to visit this forum.  Silk Road had non-illegal activity going on there, and the innocent legit members of silk road got severely screwed by the illegal activity involved around silk road.  This concept, IMO, is no different for this website, whether the website is directly involved in such activities or not.  It shows a major flaw in the system, and if the mods/owners of this site don't care about the illegal activities that its members are taking part in, then this site is going to either go down quick, or be tainted for any positive bitcoin development in the future.  The new silk road of bitcoin?  Yeah I'm out of here.

If I get any sort of response like "Stop visiting if you dont like it GTFO noob, why are u here if u dont want to visit"  etc etc is only proving my point.

Thank you and have a great day.