Absolutely that must play a role.

But it makes you wonder why anti-bitcoiners create discussion boards when they have no stake in bitcoin's failure, like the guy sanswork in whose comment tree we're posting, who is known to be an active member of 'buttcoin', a board which mostly serves to ridicule the bitcoin community, something in which he has participated in on numerous occasions for no financial gain.

It seems quite evident then that you don't need a financial stake to bring out the worst in either community.

(Unless of course they massively short bitcoin and believe their discussions on buttcoin make the price drop in any substantial way, but neither is very likely.)