Since I have very limited posting privileges, I will try to respond to two posters in one post...
Pumper clowns, as you call them, usually [but not always] are more imaginative, they have new pumps and games, and they repeat less, so they are not spammers as I understand the TOS...but pumpers do repeat some... so they are similar, but this cannot also be their difference as that is a contradiction...[cute nonsense line anyway...]
As to grubs comment to me, I dont know what everyone thinks... but basher clowns, IMHO, are not the root of all evil... some of them however actually are evil... and a lot of the others are just harmless touts of the negative variety...
I'd offer the thought that basher clowns usually say the same old things over and over till you are bored to tears, so they are spammers as I understand the TOS... and I dont think pumpers are all spammers...
As to whether they do or dont get paid something for trashing a stock repeatedly, Id say none of you are not in a position to know that for sure, since none of you have a means to check on that...in all due respect to you...
I will concede that both bashers and pumpers share one quality, they both seem to be promoters... and you cant trust that they are honest...