The term "pumper" has a specific defintion.
A pumper is a compensated Investor Relations Professional who is actively participating in a Compensated Awareness Campaign.
They are required by law to file disclosure statements pubically for all to see.
They are also required to show how much they were compensated, who initiated the campaign and when the campaign began and when it is scheduled to end.
That is it.
Shareholders discussing their stock doesnt make them pumpers. Shareholders who post often arent pumpers.
Increrased posting activity in anticipation of an upcoming event isnt pumping.
The term "basher" has very broad definition.
Failed traders, disgruntled employees, insecure investors, petty tyrants, attention seekers, free market trade haters, liberals, insufficient lovers, lonely people with no family or friends, etc.
Its sad really. The basher doesnt have to be right about anything, because the goal is to simply be disruptive and annoying.
Bashers are just gross little people who inject their opinions into conversations that they werent invited to and have nothing to gain or lose by doing so.
Hope that helps.
IMO and FWIW.
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