Some time ago, a user applied to become an altcoin-board merit source, but I can't remember how that story ended.
Probably not good given their measly merit/post ratio (for example, Altcoin Discussion board had only 0.05 merits/post last month).
I very rarely go to the altcoin section, I only check a few coins sometimes to see if there is any news. However, I saw that almost all campaign managers do not count posts from altcoin discussions, I believe they recognized the poor quality of the posts there. But 0.05 merits/post is a really bad ratio, it seems to be worse than I thought.