Scrolling down through the altcoin section nowadays, is just depressing. The community in the altcoin section has just lost all sense of communication. All you see is 'SCAM' or 'PROOF OF....' not to mention all of the coins that come out with absolutely no purpose other than the "devs" making money and abandoning.
It has gotten so bad that malicious people will do anything to cyber-bully, harm, DOX or other means of being utterly rude and disrespectful.
Folks, seriously. If you don't like a coin, and you don't agree with it. Don't visit the threads or pay any attention to it. Stop making threads about how crappy one coin is over another, and how this coin is a scam and that coin is a P&D. These people that make 'scam' coins, are sticking out like sore thumbs, and anyone should be able to pick out the good, from the bad. Just avoid the coin, and focus your energy into a coin you agree with and enjoy.
Really,
just sit down, read every bit of this, and actually let the words sink in. It is a wonderful philosophy, and I live by it everyday on the web.
Sigh.
I have to respectfully disagree. Many, many people here have lost their money betting on some random scamcoin over he years. Some scam coins even used to look slightly "legit", like XC. It's sometimes hard to tell a scamcoin from a non scamcoin, and that's where these "Proof Of", "Scam", etc threads come in, to warn newcommers of the dangers of a particular coin, though I admit some of these threads are made for blatan manipulation(And do not actually tell the truth)
For me, what makes a scamcoin different from a "legit" coin, is
1) Scamcoins usually have very small developer teams(So that most of the $ gained from the scam goes to 1 person)
2) Scamcoins usually have crappy names, such as Visacoin, Bankcoin, Stackcoin, etc
3) Scamcoins usually have some sort of borderline scam technique, such as a premine or instamine
Here's a good article on how to spot a scamcoin.
http://cryptolife.net/the-anatomy-of-a-scamcoin-7-things-to-know-before-investing-in-an-altcoin/
