You're welcome to be as cynical as you'd like But it'd be nice to differentiate the cynicism directed at PR and marketing things (i.e. things designed to change people's perception of an existing product/market), versus people who actually work on the project and post here in their spare time because they're really enjoy the product they work on (i.e., they actually *want* to interact with the community and be helpful to community members). Or not. The shotgun cynicism approach works fine for some as well.