This board is very usefull to get news quickly. There are so many eyes, ears and fingers running around and attempting to find information that when anything is new to the net or a publication, someone will post that, for the rest of us who are looking too, but have not looked in the right place. Beyond that everything is opinions of that news. Even some of the information from other sources is suspect as people can refer to a post from another board as if that is news, when it isn't. Its fun to read the opinions, but to trade on that is foolish. Some of the opinions are so interesting and bring a new way to look at the company or the geology that it gives a new start to research as you try and discredit or prove up that opinion. Without doing your own research, most who trade on others opinions will lose out on gaining the knowledge to make proper decisions and the lazy or the followers become the source of the funds that many gather from the markets. Good or bad its the leaders of knowledge not the emotional that is the source of money in the pocket.