i consider that to be one of the best considered posts in quite a while. In the best sense the term 'longs' can carry the implication 'able to stay with it for a long time', as in "long-distance runner". If being and staying long includes a long-term time frame, that's quite a different matter from what is usually found with OTC stocks, and what anyone will find in reading their respective IHub boards.
I wouldn't like to give up the experience of reading all the posts on this board, and threading my way through them. The first consideration is that there is such a high proportion of quality posts including those that express a degree of disquiet. I am hard put to name a single OTC board apart from this that pushes me so decisively to read.
I look forward to the whole learning experience, which, anyway, seems to be speeding up right now.