Good point mvbski. Any smart guy can smell out a smear campaign. In these forums it really isn't hard at all. say for example, I have it out for Tradewinds. Gary Austin hypothetically fu..ed my girlfriend. (This is purely hypothetical.) I am pissed off and decide I am going to hurt his business. It is really easy if the people reading these forums are ignorant. (thank god for JAZZ and rio's sake that the people here are generally smart.) so what do i do? I start a rumor that they are going broke and have slow paid several players for big money. I then call my friends who post to go in and start their own rumors. One friend says that Tradewinds owes an agent 100k. Another shill says that Tradewinds isn't paying their agonaldo. Another shill goes in and says that he also got stiffed. Another shill goes in and says that within weeks they will be out of business. And just when the rumors start to die down, another shill in the conspiracy starts another rumor. the problem in this picture is that "some" people start to believe it, and the rumor gets passed on and on and then distorted. All these books can hope for when it comes to the viciousness of these forums is more regulation. And they have to hope that people are smart enough to look at these lies like Sr Muny's the boy who cried wolf, and realize that rumors that go on and on without resolution are meaningless just like the boy who cried wolf. People have been yelling "fire in the theater" against rio for so long that I know for a fact that it is B.S. I am staying there for the duration with supreme confidence. Also, I am looking for any of those Shills to come out of the woodwork and wager against Rio and the shrink that rio will be out of business in a year. this should be interesting