Im all for freedom of speech. Theyre free to go anywhere else on the inter-webs and make a forum dedicated to just shit coins. They dont need to be here benefiting from the traffic of the oldest bitcoin forum in existence. The only way I can see this continuing is if the only reason for this forum is profit. Then we literally dont care what they promote as long as it makes the forum money.
Aren't you the ex-merit source guy who gave away a shitload of merits to scammers and spammers to prove that "the merit system isn't working"? What do you think most of those scammers and spammers were here for, promoting bitcoin? No, they wanted to either promote their scam or whatever ICO that was their bounty campaign.
The bounty hunter problem used to be much worse but thanks to the introduction of the merit system and waning of ICOs it has subsided and is now largely contained to a few specific sections of the forum. Just avoid those sections of the forum.
Of course the forum is for-profit. It's been that way for a long time. If you don't want to hear about altcoins, don't visit the Altcoin Discussion board. Pretty simple solution really. The mods do a great job of keeping things compartmentalized in that regard.