What you're advocating, Viscount Sussex, is an ostrich head-in-the-sand attitude: if I pretend it's not there, then perhaps it will go away.
It doesn't work.
I'd rather know what the real state of the industry is - and from that know if there are any sign of things bottoming out - than just crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.
I think that so far all of the threads have been pretty accurate. Certainly, I haven't seen any deliberately malicious ones - and if there have been, the moderators have jumped on them quickly.