Re: "just the other day, we had a visitor who we know invests in pennies who came out and said that after reading this board, he wouldn't touch this stock. What does THAT tell you?"

It tells me either:

1) Visitor was really just trying to stop any critical postings here.

2) Visitor is not very clever if they rely only/primarily on postings here.

3) Visitor is clever in seeking opinions here, along with other DD, to help their decision making process.

Since you quote the visitor as saying "after reading this board, he wouldn't touch this stock" I'd have to conclude that they are either 1 or 2 above. A logical investor would use this board to help ID areas to research/validate, skip over the IMOs, and rely far more on concrete fact-based DD.