look at the case of n0nce for example.
They're a outlier, so it's not fair to compare them to the
average user. I mean, even if they posted in the Altcoin section, at the same quality they'd get a decent amount of merits, albeit not as much as they have, but they would've been recognised for sure.
However, the Altcoin section doesn't have that. Honestly, I think chopping up the section a little more, i.e having a technical discussion area for Altcoins, would really help the section. It would allow to sift through some of the junk, but also for those that are only interested in emerging technology, and technical discussions could just go there.
I'd like to see us moderators getting on top of the spam problem a little bit more, and better categorisation of the whole section.
Categorization sounds great to me! I've wanted to talk about some Monero aspects and characteristics of other Altcoins, even though I'm not interested in them directly; just in learning about the technicalities to see what may make sense to get incorporated (or built on top of) Bitcoin.
Therefore, a technical Altcoin and Layer-2 board would be extremely helpful, where anything non-technical can just be reported and subsequently deleted or moved to the right board / subsection.