When invest in stock market, why are people so hard up over dividends?

[wahkao]

if u so scared then don't buy individual stocks
just buy the index, STI ETF is good, confirm real dividends, confirm if u hold for long term (over 20 years) will get decent returns

felix, I pointed out an important example about the pitfall on holding onto a zombie dividend giving stock. i dont understand why you have to give negative rating on that.

if you want to give negative rating to my post at least write some comments to justify the negative rating. Thanks