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allow me to extend your post.
In addition to the two types of bashers you have mentioned, there are simply nerds on message boards of penny stocks which bash focusing on the weaknesses of penny stocks which the latter ones have per definition. Calypte of course included here, there are reasons why the pps is where it is right now.
Anyway this is easy to do and the probability that you will be right in the present and also in the future is very high. Most of the penny stocks won't make it as empirical data suggest.
Why is the third type of basher doing this ? They don't do it because they are after money, profits or shorting this stock. Btw, honestly I don't really believe in paid bashers, never saw evidence for it.
I think these persons are simply frustrated and bitter, they feel that they are losers and simply want to find a place where they can get attention (and if you are frustrated enough even hatred will be felt as attention) or where they can make the experience that at least once in their lifes they will be smart and right on predictions and smarter than other persons around (e.g. by predicting losses of penny stocks).
Moreover they enjoy it when other positive people experience set backs with their stocks. This must be felt as some sort of revenge for them.
Very sad but I think almost everybody has met such people in life already beyond message boards and help us god if they are our bosses or we are married to them or they are our neighbours in countries where guns are available in every small village for a few dollars and one signature on a form.
Why are they accumulating on message boards. It is free, anonymous, if you feel you are not doing well you can create a new identity (which requires otherwise in real life much more effort) and you can say everything to everyone you have never dared to say in real life because you are a coward.
Very sad but the honest hopeful investor READs it every day on message boards.
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