Used to spend a lot of time at SEOchat, but after awhile it gets very repetitive. Greek has a good point about the speculation, contradiction and stupid information. After you read a forum for a few weeks or months, you start to get the same answers over and over again from the people who know what they are talking about.
In a nutshell, go get relevant themed links for your site, as many as possible, match the content on your site with the anchor text you are targeting. That’s essentially the magic bullet, not really much magic at all. All the rest of it is noise and people splitting hairs about one technique vs. another. Having a ton of links trumps it all.