These days it's absolutely impossible to get any serious conversation about any of these cryptocurrencies. Maybe you can do something with Bitcoin and Ethereum, but for any of the others all the foruns and chats are just flooded with crazy people.
Tell me about it. I need to follow the tech and communities as part of my job, and sometimes it's seriously hard to have any discussions e.g. in IOTA's Slack channels.
On the contrary, Monero uses IRC for their communication and maybe because of that I've seen more adult discussions in their community. Of course lots of money being on the table, things can get pretty sour everywhere.
It's a shame, quality conversation can help a coin project in the long run. But it's clear that right now IOTA is in the pump-or-you're-a-fud-shill phase and communication is impossible.
Communication is possible if you talk to the right people. Keep in mind that the people who are actually working on the technology itself or it's adaptation and implementation are not hanging all day around on reddit or #speculation channels.
I'm running an iota network statistics page, so people assume i'm more educated about iota and I receive clarification, technological or simple development questions on Slack on daily basis. I do answer all of them as best as I can, a lot of them have been evolved in pretty long discussions and I have received the same attitude from other iota community members.
