I guess it depends on your expectations. The threads on this forum hold many instances of concerted attempts to damage coins by persistently promulgating lies and innuendo as though they were truths. The attempt being conducted here is plain for everyone to see, the attackers even helpfully mark out their fabrications using font colour and size.

The altcoin section of Bitcointalk has lost a massive amount of relevance in the last few months. It must be clear to any even half-competent altcoin dev that bct is now irretrievably hag-ridden by amateur and semi-pro time-wasters and any new altcoin with serious plans for the future just has to run its own separate forum in order to allow ordinary day-to-day logistics communications to happen, let alone hold sensible and useful public discussions about aspects of coin development.

Spreadcoin will benefit from the attention; despite the visual impact of the font face and colour (hello mods?) the attackers' claims are structurally weak and difficult to communicate simply. When externally reported, they will come across as: Spreadcoin has i) a mature, receptive and respected dev who has strong support from the community, ii) a putative anti-pool tactic designed to favour the little guy and iii) been the subject of a concerted and very noticeable fud campaign. All positive points, easily supported.

Look at it this way - do you really think that the sockpuppets here will still be posting the same lies in another couple of months time? They can't afford to draw that much attention to Spreadcoin, it'd be self-defeating.

As ever, try not to feed the trolls. The ignore button is a feature explicitly designed for exactly such circumstances, do please use it because if you do not and you end up feeding these trolls, that's tantamount to indulging yourself at the expense of everyone else.

The only effective tactic in these circumstances is to conduct conversations as normal, ignoring posts from sockpuppets - it's not as if they're hard to spot, after all.

Cheers

Graham