The best thing folks can do, especially on BCAP's ihub board, is to put these paid bashers on IGNORE in their Ihub settings. What it does is it makes the board read like a normal stock investing board. Then when a basher personally attacks your post or himself posts lies and off topic nonsene, just hit the TOS button on every basher post where they violate TOS, which is most. This is what I am doing. I try not conversing with them at all. If I must make debating viewpoint I only post  a new message to my message that they posted to. Never post back to them directly. They only get paid if you post back to their post. By posting back to them you are allowing them to get paid. Never do that. Always post back to your own message.