I'm not sure you should be just asking for people's advice with this. You need to read around a lot and familiarise yourself with the big projects. Maybe look at the top 20 coins and pick some that look good to you. After that maybe expand into lesser known ALTs.
Yes, it is not good to rely on peoples opinion. But I can see that he is a wise man, you know we have too many coins in the market and we cannot research on every one of them, so from peoples opinion here, he will be able to pick out the most popular ones to research on.
Like me, I am so happy this post came out, yes I know we have top 20, but that top 20 of a thing does not really work for me, not all coins can be in top 20 and I strongly believe we have some coins that are very strong too and not on the list, so I want to see the most popular ones and not some that will just come here to promote a shitcoins they have been paid to promote.