there are altcoin users who may have valuable information, techniques and ideas which would be of benefit to all.
Provably wrong. Bitcoin profited in no way from altcoins, it is the other way around. Not only that absolutely nothing invented by altcoin developers is
added to Bitcoin but allowing altcoin market to grow puts noticable preasure on BTC due to most altcoin miners cashing out to fiat to cover their mining
costs. Not directly helping Bitcoin, more or less openly wishing it dies, dumping BTC (or LTC) for fiat but still allowed to do practically everything
here?It clearly shows forum needs agenda change. It is just like with everything, the ones who made a progress will become an obstacle for further progress.
Live and let live, I say!
Provably wrong long-term. Nature does not work that way and it is provably fine for as long as humans do not start messing with it, "fixing" stuff, etc.
While the entire debate is moot, as the section wont be removed for the reason Maged said on page one, it is not true that Bitcoin has never adopted features from other coins. In 2011/2012, I stopped using BTC for a while, because the QT wouldn't show 0 conf transactions. So I'd buy BTC on OTC and have to wait 10-20 minutes to find out if I was scammed or not. Solidcoin came out and showed 0 conf transactions and by coincidence or not, Bitcoin then had that feature a bit later.
While some of the copied coins are annoying, who cares? If you don't like them, don't get involved. There are a few rather bright devs out there experimenting with new features that could benefit Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community as a whole has figured out more or less how not to get scammed, give it a few more months, and Alt Coin traders will be pros at analyzing new coins for risks and potential as well. I'm at the point where I can look at a few factors about a coin, and instantly know if it will be at least fairly sucessful or not. Sooner or later everyone else will figure that out to, and Devs will pitch their ideas, the good ones will start, and the bad ones will go back to the drawing board, or never exist.
In the spirit of Cryptos, we vote with our hashpower, not by how many people complain about a topic in a forum thread. If it sucks, don't mine it. All the forums itself cares about, is spam and how many resources are going to the Alt Coin Section.