It's pretty pointless to tag them even if there was a substantial reason to do so. They will just come with new alts and create coins with new names. The problem is that the people who are flocking towards these coins are led by greed and not reason.
So basically you're trying to say that the same person is behind all these coins, correct? This is just the standard 'pump-and-dump' scheme that has been going on for years. I would argue that an abandoned project is much different than a scam. The latter usually implies theft of coins (e.g. from a IPO) in that section. I also don't see why anyone would invest in one without at least some security (e.g. escrows).
Thank you for your notice, the problem is that bitcoin has risen from the darknet to clear net these last years, and such shit coins are very bad for the crypto community and the bitcoin as their reputation got even more droped and it feeds the list of cons for bitcoin.
It is sad to have always copy/paste coins without any new development behinde, even if there is no coin stealing, yet it is a waste of time, money, energy, reputation to the both forum users, and bitcoin community.
Because of these, many good projects are treated as scam, and then screwed by the community, while true scam projects or fake projects gets the attention of the crowd.
That's a good catch.Speaking from my experience,the altcoin community is too naive to fall for a project if it contains the "real-faces" of the developers.Regardless of the concept and such,they receive easy funding.The scammer is probably a smart guy,it is upto the community to find out the good from the scams.
I agree with you, especially regarding new users, and they shall be protected from such a waste, and directed to legit projects, i know that forum moderators are not the police, i did this thread to actually prevent people form engaging here, because of the waste.