There is no effective fud without facts. I see the term fudder used most frequently when there is something to conceal.
That's not my experience in the cryptocoin world. People are irrational and all it takes is a few people posting negative comments to get a dump wave going. See Social Engineering, most of the time people take the info that's fed to them, especially if their peers already are in, and if a naysayer comes along all you have to do is beat him down and the crowd mentality will follow you.
It would inspire much more support from investors here to see regular updates posted on here by the devs.
Do they even have an account here?
I don't disagree. I'm not sure the reasoning behind their lack of a presence here, maybe they don't like bitcointalk, but It does not deter me. There are plenty of successful coins that don't use bitcointalk, such as XRP. I'd prefer a different site as well. This site has not changed much since I first came here in 2013.