I have been on a few forums, and involved in a few crypto currencies... I know emotions run high, and low, I also realise people are very passionate about it, which is great.
While I would concede that this forum appears to be more "mature" than most, I don't think its working in the best interest of the mass audience/potential investors. Large corporations and/or successful ventures don't allow anything negative to be viewed by their audience. You could argue that this is a free market, open and transparent etc etc... but we want your neighbour, brother, friend to get involved, we want "mass adoption".
Fuzzy, the recent video I viewed (from a link on this forum) where a few guys went across the country interviewing people, including yourself, really blew me away and invigorated my interest in the project.
Some of the posts I read on here make me cringe and ask, what are we doing here?
I think the "brand" and product really needs to be managed better in terms of what is available for the public to read. Sure have back channels for venting, but not out in the open - this needs mass adoption to be successful, case in point we have an excellent product with global potential, but look where we are in terms of market cap.
Those videos are awesome, they should be front and center, people would rather watch than read... we should have milestones and goals kicked prominently listed. We need to think about marketing more on this forum, as well as the official website, as it is a well known source of information.
As for the responses in terms of "get out now"... you make me smile, what in to the newly minted USD with $20 trillion dollar debt ceiling?! No, you won't get rid of me that easily.