I do not make my decisions on what a particular board or forum has to say about my stocks.

Of course I read and take into consideration or am prompted to look at a particular stock if I read or hear about it but that is all. I examine and make my own decisions.

All the talk about Agoracom or even bashers making or influencing my decisions is a distortion of the facts.

Sure there probably are unknowing investors that may be influenced but so what? They are no different than an unlicenced teen taking his father's car for a joy ride and ending up wrapping it around a tree.

They take their chances with everyone else.

Stock manipulation is another story. Same with short selling. I look at them as if it was a commission of fraud. So should OSC, and not divert everyone's attention to trivial matters by making mountains out of mole hills. There are plenty of real mountains for them to deal with.