It happens that I've also been paying a lot of attention to ResetEra insider circles for the past few months, and I've noticed some trends of rumors all getting passed around the same circles and rarely turning out to be true, so this strikes me as a trend that's absolutely worth discussing.
Agreed. And I hate to invoke this, but 'where we came from' seemed much tighter on this (previously - i've no idea, nor no care, for what it's like now in this respect). Maybe it's my old-man memory, but it seemed like rumour mongering from unverified or mixed sources was often shut down quickly. I think it would be beneficial to be stricter on this on Resetera also.