I am not sure about even the word foundation, it looks more like a Corporation everyday and is heavily linked to monetary investment.
The community as a whole, as in everyone on the planet, should be able to not only freely voice their opinion on any coin, even Bitcoin SHA256, not have their constructive posts either deleted without a thought or even to the extreme of bans; those kind of actions are the main reason we don't trust our own governments.
What we cannot do is decide on if a Crypto-Currency can me made, anyone can now make a coin and nobody should or be able to stop them, however it depends on the situation and Bitcoin Scrypt is a good example.
I knew that when I released Bitcoin Scrypt that the negativity for it would be overwhelming, it got so bad that any post regarding Bitcoin Scrypt got banned on this forum but after adult discussions were made, it was officially unbanned and can now be freely spoken about.
Bitcoin Scrypt has a huge following, the financial backing from not just myself but investors from Russia and China, it's global hash hovers around 1 billion, it has a new client release coming out making it easier to mine, the Dev team is actually the whole community, not an actual team or person. BTCS core principles are for it to always remain decentralized and in the hands of the people and not being manipulated by corporations, money and greed.
This is the big point that needs to be addressed:
Website Currency Equality, some example:
http://www.coindesk.com -It has the sub heading "The Voice of Digital Currency" so this should be a great website to find out about ALL digital currencies or at least digital currencies that show some innovation or might be of interest to the public?
Try and find one single article about Bitcoin Scrypt, if anyone can find a post on that website that mentions "Bitcoin Scrypt" which is referencing the Crypto-Currency directly then I will send the first user to PM me the link for the post 100 BTCS, it would take a long time to mine that many at the current difficulty of 132.
On the same website hover over the NEWS menu link, notice that its says Altcoins, Litecoin, Dogecoin. What does that mean? So suddenly Litecoin and Dogecoin are no longer Alternative Currencies?
This brings up the most important question of all, what is an Alternative Currency?
One meaning of the word Alternative - "(of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice"
Choice being the word many community members are concerned about and the whole reason I created Bitcoin Scrypt in the first place, to give the community another choice when it comes to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the item, the substance, the recipe - Bitcoin SHA256 and Bitcoin Scrypt are just two different brands, just like Pepsi and Coke, OSX and Linux, if you go back in history long enough all these things will have come from the same thing.
This is just one example, of one website deciding for itself which Crypto-Currencies should be popular and which should not, to increase popularity of something, the knowledge of that something existing needs to be shared and this sharing of knowledge is one of the main problems holding many fantastic innovations back.
The above is my opinion and this post can be treated only as such.