Now I can agree with your last comment whole-heartedly:
"Bottom line is the investor is responsible for their own actions."
You don't have to go far to show where a private board was used to silence the dissenters. Look at the RB IDCC Club board. We used to call it the "Clubhouse" where the pumpers would go to tell their dirty little lies.
On a regular basis one of the regulars would come onto the public IDCC board and tell the "real investors" to come over where the "real discussion" was happening. And they were following your "common business sense" by flooding the club board with rosy messages except they were really rosy messages since they knew they wouldn't be directly challenged with the facts.
But I can see we will never agree on this and really, I don't care if there is a Clubhouse as long as non-members can peek in the door and see what kind of lies they are telling in there. It's actually pretty amazing to watch how far the truth can get distorted.
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