Does having a certain amount of ethereum in their wallet not prevent this somewhat?

Yes this is crazy because anyone can join in with no knowledge of anything. Look at what happened with the palm beach "leak". people will jump into anything.

Most stable to me is Litecoin and Monero but even than crypto is very unstable.

Slack has a lot of scammers cause its easier to fake their identity's.

There are good and bad ICOs because more are coming out and its getting harder to pick them out.
Just do you own research and don't rely on peoples opinions.  

Diversify it into other things like stocks and fiat, doesn't even have to be that much.

Is there anything going on with EOS it's been quiet with its year long ICO.

Thanks i successfully received my tokens. This project looks great will keep a close watch on it.

You can get back your coins because all the token addresses are all ethereum addresses, but the problem is getting the exchange to send it back to you or credit it correctly on your account.

You have to contact the exchanges they have different pricing but the last time i saw a Dev post a screenshot of 5 bitcoin fee .

There are definitely a lot more airdrop coins since the last round of them.

Alts mainly got popular because people wanted to make more bitcoins imo.

Some exchanges you only need to pay them to get listed, doesn't matter what coin it is.

I think waves is the only true competitor to ethereum.

Bitcoins too strong, someone has to start up the shorts for that to happened.

More fork coins coming don't see the point in these.

You can find ICOs on here every ICO will create a announcement thread on here.

This coin is so ancient it has zero activity.

This coin always looks good to me but not much going on with it. They do buy backs from time to time though.

Yes ICO can effect ethereum price. The last time ICOs decided to convert to fiat it caused eth to go from $400 to $150.