Total horseshit. It is exactly the other way around. The way it works is, if anyone generally tries to discuss the merits of owning gold, the insults come fast and furious from the anti-gold opinion managers. Any reasonable discussion is only a product of a gold thread that isn't noticed by them. Go back and read the first page of the thread: the article is posted, and immediately the kindergarten crowd shows up to crap in their hands and throw it at the goldbugs. For any one comment you can qualify as an insult by the goldbugs, there are a dozen coming from the other direction.
Did you hear about this?
http://www.progressiveu.org/172935-how-low-will-the-dollar-go