I am relatively new to the stock (dec), averaged at about 3.80, and will admit that all of this mining stuff is over my head, randomly found the stock, have always invested in the nasdaq, dow, big names.  However I have over 5000 shares now and have become quite interested in following not and this board in particular.  I don't know what the stock will do, but what i've gotten from the board, is to hold it, and let it play out.  That's what I plan to do, rode it right down to 2.50 or whatever a few weeks ago.  But I have to admit that reading posts from polybel make you think twice.  So I would definitely think that he's a soft basher because it would make many newbies as myself think twice about it.  I don't won't to hear bad news or expectations of a stock that's went up 30-40 percent in the last few weeks unless you know some hard core info, and i don't think that he was offering any hard core info.  In conclusion, I took his posts as bashes, and I've been reading every post for the last month.  I'm glad that the board took it as that.  His posts gave me negative thoughts and I really don't  need those, just post if something is conclusive on the negative side, sorry for rambling