Some projects have been successful at leveraging Monad's mindshare to build their own.

The recipe is simple: just start making comparisons to Monad. No need to adhere to any sort of honest discussion. Apples to oranges comparisons are fine, because the readers won't think that hard anyways.

Individual accounts will do the same. "Monad sucks". Ok, then why are you posting about it? Leveraging mindshare again.

Often I'm asked if I like this or that project. Almost all the time I say "no opinion". Because if I had an opinion worth anything I'd put actual money behind it. (Although I might try to reason with them on the fly to be helpful.)

Irrational bag bias is huge in this industry. Most actually have very little conviction in their negative opinions they share on CT, otherwise there'd be a lot more short positions (respect to those that do). Far more projects go to zero than are successful (as it should be with startups), a lot of short opportunity there.

Don't get distracted by all this nonsense, just keep building.