The "Bashers" have typically been rightI will admit, while I am very long on NAG and have been for about 2-3 years, the bashers have been continually right over that time period. Those people calling for $0.50, $1, $3, or even higher stock prices, claiming Whiskey Gap is going to be huge, or LL is going to be huge, or the Basin, etc. have continually been wrong. Management has continued to move slower than a tortoise, and developments have been limited to one or 2 every year. The NAG pattern has tended to be be: upward movement in stock price - development of rumours regarding big news - more upward movement - more 'pumping' and unsubstantiated gossip - release of news - decline in stock price.
Those who bash the bashers should probably instead think about what is being said before dismissing them as nonsense. Perhaps they're just a tad more grounded in reality than most on these boards. In fact, I think the problem is more likely too many pumpers, not too many bashers. Those who want to only want to hear good news about a stock, by all means, go to that new AGORACOM stockboard or whatever it's called. There you'll be able to hang out with all the other pumpers and then you'll never even see the train coming before you get hit.