doge is and was always a joke. Litecoin and maybe Namecoin are okay and have some value.
It was (and is), but I found the community to be mostly pleasant and it was a nice way to get into crypto. The vast majority of the coins I mined, I sent towards the charitable projects they are always running. For example, there was some "get water to some poor African village" thing that I donated to early last year. Also, they had a DOGE NASCAR... that was a pretty fun thing to send coin to as well (although I'm not a NASCAR fan by any stretch of the imagination, I thought it was funny to see DOGE sponsoring the car).
I've long since stopped mining the alts... even at the end of 2013 and early 2014 I wasn't making much of anything just using my Mac's CPU/GPU to mine... then when the scrypt ASICs came out, I stopped altogether. Instead, I purchased BTC mining hardware (very first ASIC was one of the little Antminer USB sticks - that I've still got plugged in and pointed towards -ck's solo pool) and have been mining BTC ever since. I've gone through a bunch of hardware (S1s, S2s, S3s, SP10), and have also played around with some cloud mining services. All told (including my current hardware and mining contracts), I've got ~12TH/s of BTC mining.
(but forget about all other alts...)
