If longs understood who Lee and Rich were enough to recognize they were real people they could take ownership of them -the goal of bashers is to make them into cartoon characters- caricatures- it s hard to understand or defend a cartoon character

in the miner I moderate we were lucky to have the CEO provide pics of the mine every couple weeks or so,w him in some of the pics- a regular hardworking guy very mechanical who did equipment repair work sometimes himself- and reply to 100's of peoples emails with attention to full disclosure laws-

and the desire for information still seemed to be insatiable-1 day in typing nonstop after a PR in responding to bashers and also longs need for more info I felt like saying, "if you want to know if so and so snores then marry him"- the point is it would be helpful to have more communication,including human interest stories,re Lee and Rich- our mascot became the owners dog-also frequently seen in the mine pics- that seems to be what penny traders want-its a family and they want to know about family