Ninja, you are a keen wordsmith. "Deceive" has extremely negative connotations, well beyond any meaning I intended. I am, after all, a fellow long here. But I'll run with it: "intent to deceive" whom? As you stated, we all do our own DD and make our own decisions. Any one who invests based on a message board will surely lose their entire outlay
But you've hit on the essence of the stock message board: the "intent" is "to deceive" ones-self, and by extension, all who believe the same way.
The message board has always been the domain of the cheerleader, kind to those with inflated dreams of an easy road to riches and very dismissive, (downright scornful) of most suggestions to the contrary.