"Again, this is standard/required verbiage of any exploration-phase miner who is going without reportable resources.  And it is a favored topic of bashers when they have nothing else to bring up."

Having not spent time on that other board, I have not seen, other than what gets posted here, the types of attacks that some make over there.  As a result, I was unaware that this particular line of attack is commonplace.  I've learned something new today.