There are a lot of dedicated bull/ bear accounts around.
They don't wear a signature (to avoid getting banned for spam), but do what it takes to try and spread FUD

Sorry to burst your bubble but mods are actively removing posts criticizing bitcoin. About half of my posts vanish. Some is allowed to give the appearance of an open uncensored community which it clearly isn't.
Good ideas don't need censorship, they can withstand scrutiny.

Yet somehow pointing out the many flaws of bitcoin will either result in the removal of the post or nonsense replies that don't even address the issue.

Exactly. This is a Bitcoin forum. If you want to report bugs then go to the appropriate places. Most people reply with nonsense anyway, you can usually get a few good replies. They need to just nuke that area of the forum now to remove all the unnecessary posts.

As an end user of crypto to actually buy things with, give me true anonymity and above all else, faster transaction times any day of the week. But still, XMR is way too volatile yet to be considered as a serious replacement for Bitcoin. Up by around 400% in the past week, and then taking a 40% haircut!?

Not fkn tenable, but in the fullness of time, I could easily see Bitcoin being displaced.

Bitcoin could and should easily be displaced, because it is fucking shit, at what it is meant to do.

Well, somehow you have a point but  its not  the general thing why people keep on saying  the price is going down  in able to panic selling.  Its  not a new thing  for us and we even heard and read this anouncements and speculation over and over again but still  bitcoin price is keep rising compare to the previous years although it may drop sometimes  which is normal thing.