My experience has been that this forum provides ample of opportunity to hear about good projects first, but sadly there's also a lot of noise in between.
I joined the forum in the bullish year of crypto and I have read some posts from old users that the forum had a period of purity and the crypto as well. People joined the forum purely to discuss technically and there was no scam and spam.
It sounds very perfect forum in the past but things changed with the bullish year in 2017 that triggered spam and scam. Taking chances from the risks, the forum changed too and we have the merit system and two times of Trust system's upgrades to help the forum get its pure conditions back. They (upgraded systems) all have worked very well, fortunately.