I'm not going to phrase this post as a response to Cerp's offering, as he already has asked me not to interact with him directly. He deserves to have his wish respected.
However, he brings up a few questions which merit answers:
1. The case being made in Cerp's post is not that I'm an idiot (though he claims me to be one, and I'm not going to debate that point), but that I'm nefarious in trying to put cues into my posts that somehow will impact the stock price negatively. I do believe a fair reading of my two prior posts will demonstrate that whatever nefariousness I have in general, it is not being expressed in this medium.
2. Cerp's sentence "Nobody will spend their useful time on anything without trying to benefit something out of it" is quite true. My benefit in being on this Board is not economic - I am retired, have enough for now to live a modest lifestyle, and I am exceptionally risk-averse in my own finances (no common stock at all, which indeed may prove correct the view that I actually am an idiot).
I explained my benefit on being on this board in my most recent prior post. I had believed that the company was the perp in the pump & dump of last spring, I now believe I was wrong in that belief, and thus I follow the company and the stock with a bias towards hoping both will do well as an atonement for my having jumped to a faulty conclusion. However, every stock at its current price has buyers and sellers, each making his own case for his actions, and many wise people try to understand both cases. It is not idiotic nor is it nefarious to try to understand what people are trying to communicate either by their trading decisions or by their posts on a message board.
I sure hope we all can get far away from me being a topic of discussion here, as I'm not worth anyone's spending "their useful time" in trying either to condemn me or to defend me.
