I know for a fact they read these boards. I was involved in two other stocks that both put up a blog, and that blog was visited all the time by a host of WS sharpies, including the companies themselves. Anyone that says they don't read these boards is just flat wrong. And yes, "they" do pay people to post in furtherance of their cause. One of their favorite tricks is to wait for a PR, everyone's showing happyface emotions, then start walking down the SP and the miscreants show up and start their rhetoric. Sound familiar?