I think what mbot is doing is trying to warn people. The true vultures are those relentlessly pumping AVZ like there's no tomorrow.
If the musings of anonymous individuals on Hot Copper has a tangible effect on a share price that says volumes about the so-called "fundamentals" of the stock in question. Fundamentals are fundamentals after-all.
I suspect that bot is a bit older (he is certainly a bit wiser) than the overwhelming majority of people posting on this thread.
I'm out of AVZ now, after putting pretty much everything I had into it. I predicted the fall in the Dow and it was posted the prediction on here to try to warn people. I've now put all that money into another stock which I won't mention. That stock has mainly negative posts made about it on HC, but those posts are encouraged because it's useful to have all the "facts" and all the rumours filed away so one can make as informed a decision as is possible.
AVZ Price at posting:
26.5¢ Sentiment: Sell Disclosure: Not Held