You are 100% correct. Each will value a stock as these see fit, but they come to these boards as well as other places to also look for DD to help them decide that value. They should also be exposed to the truth of things, both good and bad, though such concepts are really purely relative. They are simply opposite polarities superimposed on the individual’s valuing system.
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart" ** Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly, than in his manner of portraying another" -- Richter