so they just relocate all communications to their other forums and dump btctalk.
It is also a place where you can easily moderate or redact anything you don't like.
It is hardly comparable with an open forum with objective mods. Projects using only these are a big red flag imho.
In fact if anyone gets scammed by these, nobody will ever know it, so they can do it without risking anything too.
You do realized that most alts topics had to become self moderated because of the asshats that constantly insulted and derailed the topic on btctalk.
Having some moron berate an altcoin that many in a community have worked hard on and spend considerable portion of their own fiat trying to maintain, is unwelcome to say the least.
Example:
Quite the good shitcoin. Maybe it is time to stop cheating users, ain't it?
Which is why many altcoin communities did the following.
You don't see self righteous trolls like Lauda anywhere but on btctalk.