Anyone who still needs convincing should go to SH and check out the posts that are made by "tgarfield". While he is very well behaved within Agoracom's rules of use, there is always an agenda running counter-current to the general perceptions on the board of choice.
It is encouraging that the "big guns" are being dispatched to our little board, seeing as it is always "Bashiest" just before the "dawn" of the SP that is.
Keep in mind there's a very nice stable of projects in the barn here, Gold Hill ( news likely imminent) Jacobus ( nickel, copper, gold) and our newly discovered "jewel box" of silver amongst others.
Keep it all in perspective, folks.