OP, you made your topic title look like an interrogation while it is a declarative. You may want to remove the question mark.
Aside from bitcointalk, theres this forum who wanted to become the next bitcointalk of crypto currency last year. They launched some huge payouts signature campaign here and for about a month or two, i didnt have any feedback about it. They cant still get even on level of this forum.
That was the ICOforum. At that time it did show a strong presence and dragged so many people from here because of that huge payout. But the BM "iamseedi" scammed the owner and that sort of messed up the whole thing. I think the site is shutdown now.
Dang! That was one hell of a mess. First, they said one thing, then another, then they lied to me and got caught by me during a sting op lol so much drama. From the looks of it, one thing was clear that they were after quantity and not quality.