lakes, I agree with your comments and question.
So the company management is being abused by email/phone from anonymous parties? Yeah, right!
Given what I KNOW is happening, I am not sure I am willing to accept that assertion at face value as TRUE. Sounds like an excuse/pretext to me. But just for the sake of discussion, for this moment let's just assume that's all true.
I say this so called "abuse" is an EFFECT, and the CAUSE is on that OTHER forum. If you understand the concept of "cause and effect relationships", then you should be able to see that their is an obvious tight feedback loop in place between the company, that forum, and the folks supposedly doing the "abusing". But is this a CLOSED loop? Are the people doing the "abusing" following that forum? Hard to know.
It is logical to argue that what is really happening is, honest reasonable people are showing up on that OTHER forum with legitimate questions and concerns about their investment. They are immediately "classified" as a certain type of investor or potential/non investor, or whatever. And if they are NOT perceived to be in the exact same grouping of a certain core of posters who camp out there, then these inquisitive outsiders are deemed to be adversaries and are then met with rudeness and insults and sometimes even hostility. The dialogue goes negative and stays that way.
Unfortunately, the "questions" go unanswered and the ONLY impression that remains is that the worst suspicions MIGHT BE confirmed. Next thing you know they are bringing their suspicions directly to the company management. But now there's a very sharp edge to it because of the previous rude rejection. Keep in mind there is a person at the center of this who is supposedly "in the know" about the inner workings of the company. So it does not surprise me that there MIGHT be blow-back directly to the company management. DUH!
All just my opinion...
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