thanks for the link.
I have to main points about it, firstly I don't know how thread ranks distribution is correlated to users opinion about the thread itself.
Secondly, even if we get some way to say that a particular ranks distribution means a general approval for the thread among hero/legendary users, going from this to say that "Monero is considered by many legendary/hero members to be the next step in crypto" is quite a big jump, isn't it?
Your request for citation was reasonable.
Gainsaying and nit-picking at the requested citation, upon it it being graciously provided, is not reasonable.
Nobody is stopping you from investigating "how thread ranks distribution is correlated to users opinion about the thread itself."
RTFA. Stop moving the goal posts because you don't like the fact my assertion has a reasonable basis, demonstrated with empirical data.
I'll save you the trouble. The Hero/Legendary posts in the XMR thread are positive and supportive, while the ones in the other threads are significantly less so.
Notice the number of hero and legendary members? Darkcoin has 57 (2.23%) hero and 9 (0.35%) legendary versus Monero with 56 (3.94%) hero and 12 (0.85%) legendary. Percent wise monero has attracted more than twice legendary members and almost twice hero members.
In other words, it seems oldtimers gravitate towards monero/cryptonote and ignore darkcoin.
Sorry but posts frequency don't say anything about the opinions of thread's participants.
TheKoziTwo's chosen the right word: gravitate.
Mind you even JorgeStolfi gravitates a lot towards Btctalk "Speculation" section with more than 4K posts, but this does not mean that he's a bull... on the contrary.
I'm not moving the goal posts I'm just saying that posts frequency by hero/legendary members can't say anything about the contents of such posts.
As you already acknowledged to estimate if those hero/legendary users support the thread you need to perform a qualitative analysis, I.e. you have to read those posts.
That said if you're interested in my opinion I wouldn't touch DRK with a ten foot pole, and as I've already said, a mix of due diligence and gut feeling, ascribe myself among the group of people that have a quantity > O of XMR in their crypto currencies portfolio.