Red, you may be on to something. I don't know Aude from Awde but he also posted on the NSM forum right before NSM pulled the plug on Agoracom last September. It seems traffic had completely died on the NSM board and needed a boost ... within minutes his messages had 6 and 4 recos ... then 3 days later the announcement that NSM ended their contract with Agoracom ... and nothing posted since.

I find it also a little strange that some hubs disappear after the IR contract ceases (such as Sage and Bard Ventures) while others such as NSM remain ... even though noone has posted on it. Could it be that most of the posters on those boards were fake?

Something smells really rotten around here and unfortunately until Agoracom addresses the questions and becomes more transparent, it will continue to smell rotten, even if the OSC allegations are tossed.

REgarding your observation of Aude, I find it odd (pun intended) that the posts he gets the most "recos" for is regurgitation of news releases.

such as

http://agoracom.com/ir/GoldstoneResources/forums/discussion/topics/395707-goldstone-drills-four-m-of-26-3-g-t-au-at-hardrock/messages/1311555#message

http://agoracom.com/ir/ontex/forums/discussion/topics/345115-more-high-grade-gold-intersects-at-prolific-beardmore-geraldton-greenstone-belt/messages/1161072#message

or in this case it's a timeline of meetings that would be info akin to what an Ir firm would provide ...

such as ..

http://agoracom.com/ir/ontex/forums/discussion/topics/378791-notice-of-record-and-meeting-dates/messages/1260694#message

http://agoracom.com/ir/ontex/forums/discussion/topics/376491-soon-after-the-nov-3-due-diligence-deadline/messages/1254000#message

Now At first I alwasy figure people liked to be reminded of news. However, when I post a news release on other venues, it seems my message rating is low not extremely high. Kind of makes you wonder if there are even that many real people reading these boards. I'm not here to accuse AUDE of anything untoward, but I do find it strange how agoracom's rating system produces results that are inconsistent with the rest of the world ... kind of makes you go HMMMMM.