The problem is not that, it's  how many people do we loose because of the lack of scam moderation who come in, take a look / get the info the need at the time and then leave never to come back again since there are so many scams here that it just looks like a cesspool and it's not worth their time to have to sort through it.

I *know* and I would like to make this perfectly clear that is *know* not "I heard" or "I think" of but *know* 2 people, who are very into BTC and work extensively with it who will not come to this forum because of the crap here. Both have very successful crypto businesses but avoid this place because of theymos's hands off we don't regulate scams attitude and letting the conspiracy people run around in P&S. Having a free and open forum is good, but thinking that we don't loose useful people because of it is just naive.

There are also a lot of projects that don't come here because of it too.

Is the forum better or worse because of that is tough to say. All I CAN say is that it causes some of us the get help elsewhere which drives other people to get help elsewhere which takes away from the userbase and information available here.

-Dave