I am challenging everyone to find a reason what is behind this attack and hate.
The answer is rather easy to find if you ask me. There are
plenty of XMR fans and, for some reason, not few offensively-minded at that. The competitive nature of the altcoin forum and the "fighting" among the defenders of various altcoins results in attack and/or hate. The more aggressiv a particular project's defenders promote their cause, the more hate they tend to receive accordingly.
Do the XMR fans go to litter other coin threads? (I don't know because I never visit such) There is a flood of trolls in XMR threads. Is it balanced?
The day XMR was attacked, one of the more vocal supporters of Monero posted this on the Darkcoin thread
So the guy who sold celeb photos for bitcoin, he should really have used darkcoin...
Why? Bitcoin is as secure as Darkcoin, if he wanted real anonymity he would have used Monero.
These things have been going on for a very long time. I just randomly picked up an example, the newest in my memory.