Don't worry about anti-gold posters. They are simply bitter that they didn't buy in 1999. And, boy, do they hate to be reminded of the price of gold now. ;-)
Gold goes up. and gold goes down.....Its like any other commodity...you gotta watch close.
If one had the foresight to time the gold market perfectly and buy at the lowest point in 1999, then they would have earned a 100% return on their investment or approximately 16.5% return, minus the high super high transaction fees and commissions. BFD. Most people can't time the market with perfection and therefore their returns are generally a lot less than the best case scenerio that the gold hucksters project. Very few gold hucksters will tell you, for example, that if you had brought gold on December 21, 1980 and sold today you would have lost nearly 45% of your investment, plus the high commissions and transaction fees.
No doubt the cliches of stocks always go up rings in their heads as well. Such as the DJIA never goes down for any long period of time, true perhaps but they change out the stocks like the Pony Express changed out horses. It seems us barbarians must hold our gold forever and that the rule of "buy low sell high" does not apply to us when it comes to the antis.