If none of us hit "reply to message" for any of the bashers post, they will not get paid. However, I do reply, but I just select "post a new message" instead, and then I write a response to their message and occasionally use part of the bashers message so they will know that I am responding to them. Also, by not hitting "reply to message" they will get no notification in their mail box nor email message notification that someone responded to their message. They could be posting on another board and will never know you wrote a response back.