You've got a point though. It's counterproductive to mine small coins when they don't yield significantly higher profits than LTC (i.e. the algorithm might predict that they're slightly better, but the benefit is smaller than variance). The combined hashpower of a pool only increases their difficulty and, thus, makes them even less profitable.

Terk should make some kind of agreement with h2odysee and poolwaffle to completely switch to LTC in situations like this. Just to give the small coins some 'room to breathe' for a while.

Or would this have bad side effects on the small coins?