Spiff, please read this carefully and thoroughly.
I'm qualifying this post with the above comment because so many clearly don't bother to actually read and absorb what other people are saying.
You've also been a traditionally polite poster, so I don't mind actually discussing this with you or HC directly.
Consider the following points:
1. This is a stock message board. This is exactly where discussions of this nature are supposed to take place. It's the raison d'etre of iHub. When people complain about negative posters, they're forgetting about the flip-side of their inferred argument. Any time somebody questions why negative comments are posted here, they're essentially making the argument against themselves as well since there's no more "justification" for positive comments than negative. It's a forum, and again, the hallmark of intellectual honesty is the earnest solicitation of opposing points of view. People who can't handle that are worse than stupid. They're fundamentally dishonest and oppressive of other people's opinions. It's no small irony that several examples of this type of poster can be found in people who claim to support "liberal" political ideologies.
2. I, for one, own many shares of Cytogenix. That means I am, in part, an owner of the company. The childish chant of "just sell if you don't like it" is antithetical to the concept of publicly traded company. To somehow choose to believe that somebody like me is "bashing" the company is to choose idiocy since it would be intrisically harmful to my own greater well-being to put CYGX down, and if that's the case, one need only exercise a small amount of reasoning to determine why I say what I say. There isn't a single person here who can find, in any of my posts, an attempt to "bash" Cytogenix. Not one. However, I and others like me, are thoroughly and completely dissatisfied and disgusted with the behavior of the current CEO, and we have very good reasons. There is a world of difference between the company and the guy sitting in the CEO chair just as there is a world of difference between the USA and the man sitting in the Oval Office for any particular administration. Saying "sell if you don't like it" is exactly the same as saying "if you don't like the current Presidential administration, leave the country". Moronic. With a large enough bloc of shares supporting the removal of the current CEO, he will be removed, so a wiser slogan would be "campaign if you don't like it", and that applies equally to the political analogy.
3. "Call and talk to him and then you'll know." Rubbish. I already know, as does any potential investor, that the man does not tell the truth. How do I know this? Among other reasons, because he promised something and did not keep that promise. He didn't even publicly apologize for not keeping it, and the stock price (as it did throughout December and January) suffered for it. It's sadly amusing that anybody would presume to think to know whether I've called Malcolm or not since it's not only poor critical thinking, it's also completely irrelevant. He made a promise. He did not keep the promise he made. That is a lack of integrity (funny how the only rebuttal on that topic was a deliberate mistranslation of the word "undertake", eh?) on the part of Malcolm Skolnick, not Cytogenix. Not the company, not it's business, not it's employees, not it's product - only it's CEO. Anybody who doesn't understand that is not just stupid in the deprecating "yo mama" insultable sense; they're stupid in the actual IQ, square-peg-in-round-hole sense. Insufficient mental horsepower. This is the type of person who sloganizes legitimate concerns and believes them, for example, to be derivative of undergarment orientation rather than issues of ownership - the way I own Cytogenix and am deeply concerned that it's currently run by a man who so flagrantly displays a lack of integrity.
Spiff, if you don't understand why I'm here and why I'm saying what I'm saying, that's fine. That can be remedied by sitting and thinking about it (not just regurgitating someone else's irrational effluvium) for a minute or two. It won't take long. You have the evidence of all my posts at your disposal, and you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure it out.
However, if you, like others, choose to impute to me some sort of cartoonish motivations, then you will be choosing, as they have, to cognitively hobble yourself.
Dummies love slogans. They love catch phrases and labels like "sell if you don't like it" and "basher" and "move on". Yet a quick peek at the facts shows broken promises and a stock price that reflects them, attributable to one person, and one person alone - and that person is running a potentially great company down.
