Hopefully as time passes we can get more and more people to adopt BTQ and grow the community

That would be really good. The problem is existing miners jump on a new coin as it comes out, mine the crap out of it to dump. All the "hot" coins on c-cex getting a lot of attention and volume get delisted a few months later after everyone cashes out. Really hurts the alt-coin market.
New interest in bitcoin is soft because it's been stuck in the $370 range for a while, so new interest in alt-coins is even softer. The thing I like most about bitquark is the long term distribution. That's why I'm sticking with it and the fact that there's a few of us using it in real life down in Florida makes it really fun. I wish instead of that group trying to re-launch Quarkbar, they would put their efforts in bitQuark instead. Quarkbar efforts will never go anywhere. Scam coin to start, revived by community takeover, but slowly dying with the rest of the alt-coins. Same with EBT, same with Karma, same with Moon, everyone should just join bitQuark.
We have the sexiest members, the most dedicated developer, and most of us smell good too.
You are EXACTLY right about that! People are only mining these shitcoins and then cashing them out for BTC. A month later the coin dies. If exchanges would stop adding coins that don't have a legitimate use, then it would allow the real world used coins to rise. I've tried talking with the admins at C-Cex about this, but they don't want to listen cuz they are making profits from the trading. We need to put together a really big campaign to get more people on board with BTQ!!!