Does FCU monitor Stockhouse? Of course they do. They would be crazy not to. For our sake, as well as their own, they should monitor it. Information, good and bad, moves at lighting speed in today's globally connected world. They have to know what is happening everywhere all the time if they are taking care of business as they should be - and I assume that the are.
There's a parallel of sorts between with Frank magazine (the Ottawa muck-raking publication) and federal politicians. They all hate it but they monitor it surreptitiously because the first smoke of scandal often shows up in Frank before it hits the mainstream media, where reporters are routinely more cautious before joining the chorus.
In this case it's not scandal that FCU has to worry about, since PLS has been the discovery story of the past four decades in the Athabasca, but there are good reasons nonetheless to pay attention to the daily flow of posts on the board. Here are a couple:
(1) The misinformation and often outright stupidity contained in comments by trolls and malicious bashers. Most of this stuff can be safely ignored (and is) but no prudent management would take the chance of ignoring it entirely. (It's the same logic that prompts political parties, especially during election campaigns, to set up "hot rooms." They need to have a "rapid response" capacity at their fingertips when required. (And if there is a parallel between an election campaign and the pending sale of a major resource discovery, we are already in it.)
(2) Terrific research, information and opinion posted by investors with real knowledge and expertise of the Athabasca Basin and the industry in general. These posts influence not only other investors but analysts, not to mention business writers and broadcasters, whose opinions are of great importance, whether positive or negative, right or wrong. A good example (one of many) is the "game changer" language that originated on this board with the first news of the R600W results. It leaped overnight to the reports of both media and analysts.