I am willing to ask the audience though, so here it is, is a copied white paper still a red flag for projects? If a newbie ask you this question what will be your answer to them?
Personally I'm not really interested in this new projects, after knowing that most are just a pump and dump project that rocks the bull season, i have reduced the rate at which I give attention to them.
Copied, white papers should even make someone leave this new projects generally after encountering more than one same copied white paper, even the big projects as you said earlier are no longer big projects in my eyes because they all follow the same ways.
Because this days, roughly all projects have same utilities, and also white papers, the only real difference I can see is the team members, and the money they are able to raise, is it a good advice to tell a newbie to count more on the team past experinece? Because saying this means that the team will atleast know how to do marketing and pump their token on their first bull market experience.
Are team members really a good differences? I don't think so because what will be will be, no matter what team handles the project it will still end up being a scam. one thing is certain most altcoins or new projects are scams, shitcoins they don't really have any good use because almost all the utilities they might want to offer has been offered by already existing projects.