NXT and NEM are, indeed, two of the "better" choices, with an active community and good developers, both with really useful features. Although I'm not sure if NEM is actually in a little bubble, but I don't expect it to go much lower. Long-term, I expect both NXT and NEM doing well.
how do we know they are just up for easy money? would it help if they are anonymous or simply known which they give away their linkedin profile?
I don't know which ICO coin you mean, but generally ICOs from anonymous "devs" are dangerous. A linkedin profile may be not enough. It's better if they can show some code. If there is much greed in the forum thread and nobody talking about the coin's features, it's also a warning sign.
I agree with you. I think NXT and NEM are the best altcoins (building from scratch) both have strong community. A great news for investor -> NXT 2.0 will have a new ICO coming soon. Be aware.
Different from other developers who live on other people's communities looking for bugs and glitches and generating mischief all around the foruns. Devs of the two communities(NXT and NEM) focus on developing their currencies and not attack other communities.
The only problem with NEM is they dont have a Linux client and tornado is now offline. :/