I enjoy the manipulation. Profit incentive is more predictable than random herd behavior IMO.
Sometimes people can be simply mean with manipulation though.
Why suppress a micro cap to lock in a 20% gain. That's just terrible, there's way better ways to make money in the market than that. Amateur manipulators are irritating.
Promo manipulators are fine with me though. I'll take a 50% paper loss for a while, I buy in intending to buy multiple more times anyway. Bring on the cheapies. Go big or go home. That's my philosophy.