It's not an endorsement of a specific alt coin. It would be like if in the securities section, there was an ASICMINER subboard.
Fair enough Asicminer deserves a subforum, and i dont have a dime in Asiminer, yet I can recognize the value since the contribute more than a fifth of the hashes. Likewise LTC should its own place on this forum because like it or not it has 10% the market cap. I am not a LTC early adopter but I do support it. (bought my first around 50 cent which I wouldnt consider early)