IMHO, inflation is a really bad idea. When Doge announced they were keeping inflation, the value dropped by half and never recovered. At this point cryptos are investment vehicles that you can use for money kind of like if you could use Google stock to buy beer and if doing so was possible but really difficult and required special equipment. The goal for cryptos is to be like money but we're not there yet. If we have inflation then people think in their heads that their investment will just shrink. Even if it isn't true (the Doge people try as hard as they can to prove this) people don't listen especially when the next newest coin doesn't have inflation ... I think the inflation thing killed Flappycoin also.
I lost very little on tales, probably about 500 coins, and I know hank wasn't scamming. I run pools, and dafuqcoin was a rootkit trojan. I believe he even handed the wallet over to the dev. As for the halving of the coin, the dev is right, this isn't sustainable - the coin will be 25% mined out within a month and there will be about 20 guys packing most of the coins. One thing that could be done is to add an annual inflation portion, like 5% like what doge is doing, and put a very small PoS into it. Something like 1% stake every month. Reduce the rewards down to 100 per block, but don't increase the block time. Of course these are just opinions, and I'm part of the coin posse IPO, so I'm biased toward making my stash valuable. Can you blame a scrubbie for wanting to live in his own mansion?
Either way, I think the key to success here is endorsements and more media exposure. Becoming listed on a high volume exchange just leads to mad dumping, people can't resist. I find the most valuable coins are the ones that go from PoW to PoS entirely, like mint and cinni etc.
I know irl that things happen when you write letters, I do it all the time to politicians regarding the hot topics that concern me. Usually they just ask for money haha, but it may not be a bad idea to drop Shaggy a line and mention the coin. You have no way of knowing what they think, I'm certain their lawyers have brought it to their attention, but it might be smart to show there's real juggalos behind this so it doesn't look like we're just trying to rip on their IP with no consideration for the brand.
Anyway, apologies for a tldr post