Are you certain about this, Alani?
I doubt Theymos would be happy to hear that.
Bitcointalk relies on the traffic generated by the altcoin forum. I would be surprised if Theymos would willingly allow this traffic to go elsewhere.
No it does not rely on the traffic from this forum. This part of the forum is utter garbage with 95% (at least) being useless, I'm not even going to mention the number of coins that are being released for pump and dumb/scamming attempts.
I wonder just if the section was removed entirely, how much less spam/work there would be for the moderators.
There would not even be a need for such strict rules as this one. After all it is called
bitcointalk.org