So there are quite a few good projects (link, iota etc) that are frowned upon by the mods. I understand that mods exist to protect and serve a community by preventing obvious scams like bitconnect, but there is a dark side to all this. The mods may or may not have massive bags full of their own coins (dash, btc, eth, monero, zcash). Certain mods (not naming names here) may or may not be deleting content and banning users because they feel their bags threatened by the projects.
Alternatively, they may have not done enough research on the projects, or they may themselves be influenced by FUD or Shill articles they read on other sites. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and cryptotribalism is a thing. Do not expect human mods to somehow be immune to this.
What I fear is that the mods are consciously or unconsciously making themselves out to be the ones who make sure that we are "safe" and that in the process of determining what is harmful content, they are deleting posts about perfectly legitimate projects. In addition, they believe that their particular investments are wise investments and might be blinded by sunk cost fallacy. Which means if a mod had bought bitconnect, they might not have taken the step to ban bitconnect related posts.
I think that we need mods to at the minimum disclose their cryptoholdings. The ideal mod for /r cryptocurrency would have no cryptoholdings. Ideally, they would be an economics major, and they would have experience in the cryptoworld and they would give suggested rankings for posts rather than outright post removal.
Last note is bans. Bans are remarkably unhelpful in general. It is extremely easy to create a new reddit account and get some basic karma to post. Instead of a ban, it would be great to be able to tag a user with a moderator warning on a specific topic. The user never sees the moderator warning, but other accounts could see the moderator warning. Alternatively shadowbanning is an option but shadowbanning will end in the same type of account creation behaviour that a ban causes.