If that's true it's part of the reason that IHUB sucks. Anyone that's been investing in stocks, especially pennies, for any reasonable length of time knows that amongst true investors seeking solid long term investments there will be sneaky lying weasels that don't have any problem hurting investors or the companies they've invested in if they can gain personal profit from it. Jim Cramer's admission of the use of these tactics doesn't make him my hero any more than it made him a hero for Jon Stewart who also expressed dislike of the method and helped to expose (with Cramer's help) just how similar the SEC is to any other incompetent and/or corrupt government authority. I strongly believe that if it's ok on a site for sneaky slime to use such tactics and smear companies for profit then it should be perfectly acceptable for long term investors in the smeared companies that spot them not only be allowed to expose them but smear them as they have done to a company that the investor is long in. It's the democratic way and it works for us here so those who disagree are cordially invited to shove off.