Of course, yes, you're right. I wasn't thinking. It is easy to forget sometimes and let your guard down.
Although if there is only $10 spread across all those coins, it is probably okay to put $ amount

This is a very good point. Unfortunately a lot of cryptocoins have problems with the rich getting richer (whales). Coins like this give an opportunity to reduce world inequality, which would certainly be a great thing.

We need an easy way to buy alts with fiat. If it can be achieved, this would be a great way to decouple alts from btc, which is a big problem as we can see good news with an alt, but it is swamped by btc price moves and so the alt fails to rise in price.

A lot of ICOs run on Ethereum, so if it's an ETH compatible token and you contributed in ETH, they will likely send the new token to the address you sent from.
The crucial point here is don't send from an exchange (Bittrex, Coinbase etc). You need to send from your own wallet. So for Eth probably MyEtherWallet, or something like the mobile imtoken app.

If you're completely brand new though, I'd stay away from ICOs. Prices tend to plummet when they first hit the exchanges and people go for a quick profit.

My personal perspective is I would only buy into an ICO if I believed in the project.

If you don't believe in the project or don't know enough about it, then it is pure gambling, and in this case if for some reason I bought at an ICO I didn't believe in then I would sell immediately.

No, I don't think that's a good idea. You'd get some good stuff, but also some rubbish (I'm looking at you, Bitcoin Cash!).
Also I don't see how the under $1 part matters. Under $1 usually just means a lot of coins in circulating supply. It's more meaningful to look at market cap.

It would be easier to assess if you put approximate $ value against each. But that is a lot of coins to keep track of!

One thing that needs to be remembered is that marketcap is based on current circulating supply. You also need to be aware of maximum supply to understand how this can impact price of the coin.

There is always a dump with airdrops, but that is the price that new coin developers are willing to pay for the publicity. So something like Deep Onion they have had huge publicity, but it's a trade off. Obviously you don't want all of your coins to be dumped and nobody buying. So long as a coin has committed devs and a good roadmap and white paper, there should not be too much trouble.

Everyone definitely has their own list, but that is quite a long one OP!
Personally I couldn't keep track of developments with that many, and I like to be as informed as I can be about those coins that I hold.

If your goal is to turn $100 into $30,000 then I think there is no point investing in higher market cap coins because the room for growth is not there. Just imagine what it would take for Ethereum to grow 300 times bigger than it is now. The market cap would then be insane. So I think you could either make your goal smaller or put in more money, or if you want to stick to that goal then go for some obscure coins that are more of a gamble.

I also think Deep Onion is good, but unfortunately my account is too new, so I will never be able to take part unless they change the rules. It's a great coin for the old-timers though

I don't think the chain will split, and we won't see a new version of ETH. But I'm not sure if the market might dip again as the fork gets closer. I don't think it's a risk myself, but the market can have a bit of an over reaction sometimes!

The question is will alts fall in the short term. I think some ETH alts might because of the coming fork. Also I think there is still the bitcoin issue in November, so that might cause the whole market to fall again.

BAT and Ripple are completely different things, they're not competitors. But I wouldn't choose either of them. I'd probably go with something like NEO or even just bitcoin.

Nice idea and a site I will use quite often I think. There are a lot of ICOs out there and it's nice to have a central place like this, so thank you.

It is a risk like everything. But when the whole market is falling, do you risk using tether? I would say yes, but it's personal opinion. And it also depends on the amounts you're putting in. I wouldn't put all of my cryptocoin holdings into tether, but I would put some in.

Yes, the whole market drop has an effect, but I do think part of it is the usual pattern after an ICO when loads of people dump the coin. It happens a lot, most coins seem to experience it. And then the coin recovers once a) the whole markets moves up and b)there is some good news about the project from the team.

But if you joined 3x [two weeks] ago and have activity 42 but you have posted 100 times... then all that you need to do in the next two week block is post once more, and then your activity will increase to 56. It's all explained in the link I shared, and that is where I learned about activity.

I think the calculation is well thought out, and it prevents someone just joining and posting 1000 times in a day and instantly becoming legendary even though they're new.

Whilst it is great when a project does already have a working product, the reason a lot of ICOs are start-ups is because they need to generate money for the project. So I think if you restricted yourself to those that already have a product, you'll miss out on a lot of opportunities.

Nothing against Kickico though, just a general comment.