In my point of view some one has to pay the bashers and I am of the belief that many people be they retail, mm's or other recognize that it is easier to make money shorting a stock. (yes you can short a penny stock) I have always maintained that the Ihub board sees a stock go up and/or it has a lot of attention and that is their bread and butter so they pay the pumpers and the bashers so that they can short the stock. If they can short it into ablivion then so much the better for them if not they will still make tons of money as long as the attention is there.