I'm a relative newby here - been around for about 2 months now and to be honest I have never seen a place like this where the moderators have not stepped in to delete/suppress known scams/scammers.

The moderators seem great at moving new threads if they're in the incorrect forum but never seem to intervene when there are crooks and scammers post miners etc for sale.

My background is running forums. This past year I sold two of the largest forums on the website to a forum consolidation company. I won;t go into details but both of the forums that I ran - one I started and the other I purchased from a bankrupt company both had Alexa Rankings in the top 25,000 sites in the web.

I've been discussing with my wife getting back into the fray and starting a new site for anyone interested in Virtual Currency and the moderators would have the ability to intervene and protect unsuspecting people from scammers and also have to ability to kill posts from people introducing coins that are clearly scams, etc....

There are a lot of very knowledgable people on this forum and a lot of people who could benefit tremendously from those with knowledge.

In addition on the new forum vendors would have to clearly Identify themselves - I'm not sure how yet but anyone trying to take your money for hardware would have to submit themselves to a vetting process so you can be sure you're dealing with someone legit and if they scam someone I'd publish their IP address and everything known about them.

these are some of my thoughts and I'd like your thoughts also on a how a new forum could be better, safer, friendlier etc....

what would you folks like to see and what do you want?

I would not make  newbies wait 6 minutes between posts either because when you're new is when you have the most questions.

thanks in advance

Jeff