well, it does not leave much other ways to promote a coin
There's the whole rest of the Internet And thus the birth of DOGE.
If a coin doesnt suck, BitCoinTalk will be be well aware of it.
Getting people to post Crypsy, CoinedUp, Coinex,...etc requests generally just annoys the exchange owners. They arent stupid and dont care about people who got paid .00001 USD to spam their request forums.
Read the ANN post, make an educated guess as to whether its worth your mining time.
The giveaway amounts most of the time probably dont cover the bandwidth / electricity costs / disk costs of installing a new QT client.
what next?
You think a coin looks great, yey!
but wait a minute, it was announced 3 weeks ago and it has 3 pages of posts. NEXTTTTTT.
ok so point 1) size does count
point 2) 99-99.999% of users here mine for profit, not for donating.
how do you judge the chance of a coin getting on an exchange?