I would add to it, which Platform is it based on, I would stay away of all project that are built on top of an existing blockchain but not built on top of top 5 crypto currencies. (e.g. Next platform thats not user friendly at all).

Victor

Just out of curiosity.... What are some examples of "next platform"?  Are you referring to something like Waves?  Thanks.

Question for all of you that consider every ICO to be a SCAM, how else would a company distribute their coins?  And don't say air drop, because no one is going to spend significant time and money on a project to give it away for free.

There should be a working product or as much as possible the project can be vision potentially. When we can vision it chances it can get successful plus the team should be onhand and easy to contact too. Be smart in choosing ICO.

I believed we now have plenty of HYIP Monitor sites, Why don't we form a similar concept an ICO Monitor/Analyzer sites? Expert on spotting ICO scammers should lead this ICO Monitor/Analyzer sites

So, I can see some people consider uncapped ICO's as a sign of scam and others that consider the capped ICOs as a sign of scam, is that correct?

I think that some projects might fail even if they are not scams. A scam is when someone writes a whitepaper and creates a website promising to develop something he has not the intention of actually building. We maybe won't know what the real scams are until some months or years from now.

The cap raised during the ICO cannot determine whether it is a scam or not, but maybe it can determine if the project is a good investment (considering it is not a scam) or not, because very large caps will probably devalue after listing on exchanges.

Probably the biggest sign of of a scam project is the use of fake names and profiles in the Team section.

If the team has a product under development (or already developed), uses their real names, provides transparency about their operation, and stuff like that, if their ICO is uncapped and people send hundreds of million of dollars, the company might become overvalued, but I don't think it automatically qualifies the project as a scam. If instead they have a capped ICO and sell out in seconds, for me it also doesn't make the project a certain scam.

I mean the next platform it is a project by itself, there is the Next coin do to stuff on the Next platform. it will switch to ardor soon. I would stay away from it for a long time. It is full of bugs