The accusations of bashing at even the slightest call to caution brings back some memories.
The "tech-bubble"- beginning of year 2000 . The pumping on SH was at it's best I still recall one post "anybody who can't turn 3 thousand dollars into a million in 6 months is a loser and doesn't have a place in our league", made lot of money and ended with less than I started with. BTW the bashers were outnumbered by far by pumpers. Learned my lesson, my BS detector is always on now. Basher and a pumper could be both an equal danger to you and usually they warn you about each other. It is up to everybody to make his own decision after obtaining as much info as necessary. Some bashers like "new kid on the block or sheep baa, oilpro" to name few from SH are very annoying and I am really glad to not see posts of this kind on our forum. They are probably the main cause for that site's lose of many of their posters to AGO. Concerning "soft bashers" I don't need any more protection from them that I need from "soft pumpers". Members of this forum should feel free to express their concern or caution. Thanks to everybody for sharing their knowledge (too many to name) with us with little or no geology background. For those questioning my motives, I am not a pumper or basher. NOT is the largest part in my PF for over a year and I am here for a long run. vila