Re:shilltrolls. That is hard to avoid because monero is so good.
There are private forums, and one will probably be set up soon as part of some initiatives that I know of, but cannot tell of, but know of so much that am buying right now, perhaps the last week of cheap monero.
Last cheap week? It's overpriced as it stands. If you can't evangelize and convince more idiots to buy your coins, the price will stagnate and then decline. Gotta love that emission curve.
If we compare XMR and DRK fully emitted market price, XMR has a market cap 3 times cheaper than DRK. Lets that sink for a while.
I'm not convinced that's a very relevant statistic alone. I think current supply, total supply, and rate are all factors.
Total supplies: very similar, so ignoring
DRK current supply: 4,556,xxx
XMR current supply: 2,754,xxx
Difference: ~1.8m
DRK rate: ~2,880
XMR rate: ~21,500, constantly decaying
Difference: ~18,600
If the reward didn't decrease daily from here, XMR would catch up in current supply in less than 100 days (so in reality it'll be 110-120 days(?), haven't done the math).
It will continue on at its more rapid distribution, by April 2016 having ~9 million emitted (I think this is correct?).
DRK will have ~6.28 million or less (with 7% subsidy reduction yearly)
DRK market cap April 2016: ~$29 million
XMR market cap April 2016: ~$17 million
If your time span is thus the half-life of XMR (is that what it's called?), the market caps aren't nearly so different as now, with XMR at almost 60% of DRK.
This might all be meaningless, but take it FWIW.
In my opinion, Monero should save the marketing for later on(Octorber/November+). That's when the technical working should be on its way to endingor so I think and etc. We all know that Monero is a 10x superior coin to Darkcoin, with both it's fair launch, name, dev team, superior anonymity, specs, etc, it's just that I believe when the database/syncing/bloating issues are addressed, then Monero would probably be able to compete with even Bitcoin.
What do you mean by that? On price? Market cap? Transaction volume? Give me some context.
. 
). I guess what I was trying to say is that the facts are out for everyone to see, and the market will decide what matters or doesn't matter in the long run.
) 
