It is a slimy marketing tactic.. Most other coins do not stoop to this level, at least not officially, but the developers and largest
Again you assume your own (false IMO) interpretation, present it as fact, and then use it to attack. This tactic is fairly classic propaganda, and I'm calling you out on it.
It is not a marketing tactic to maintain threads that are topic-focused. If you look at the actual Monero threads (mining, support, speculation, etc.) you will say they are fairly low to moderate volume and very much kept on topic by either moderators or the fact that they haven't been flooded by trolls yet.
The troll threads are of course none of these.
The third category are threads, such as this one, created by people interested in Monero to discuss current events or similar topics about Monero, and then kept active by other people interested in Monero. You will never be able to stop that unless you stop people from being interested in Monero. Good luck with that.
At least you finally admitted not having your own forums is a form of advertising....
And again...
Not having our own forums is due to:
1. The software implementing it isn't done yet.
2. It not being a terribly high priority because the level of traffic doesn't warrant it.
3. We're perfectly on-topic and of-interest to the user base here. No one credible (meaning board forum operator or moderator, not propagandists like you) has asked us to leave.
