It’s not a secret, that lots of scammers promote their scams in this forum. So it’s important to warn other members and ask critical questions. But there is a problem if OP creates a self-moderated ANN: He can delete all critical comments he doesn’t like.
Why I had this idea?
The problem appeared when the scammer yokxashor https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/yokxashor-1958276 made an ANN and Bounty for his MLM Ponzi Bitconnext (next Bitconnect). I opened a scam accusation a few days ago: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitconeeeeeext-next-bitconnect-scam-warning-4413982
There were critical comments in his self-moderated ANN https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/icobitconnext-earn-up-to-20-monthly-with-bitconnext-investment-platform-4378430 and so he closed it instantly. As a result, now the critical comments were made in the Bounty https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bounty-bitconnext-registration-closed-4377997 warning the Bounty participants that this project is an obvious scam.
I posted two warnings, both were deleted:
So he can continue promoting his scam, the only thing he has to do is deleting all warnings...
It would be great to prevent this abuse in the future that scammers cannot create and run self-moderated posts. Someone who is extremely untrustworthy shouldn’t be allowed to delete critical comments here and promote his scam.
Requirement to disable the self-moderation is a really high red trust score over 50 (just an idea). So many DT members have to confirm, that OP is a real scammer.
What do you think about it? If someone is a well known scammer and promotes his platform in his ANN by deleting critical comments, this is an obvious abuse of self-moderation.