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Don't forget, 'dark' is good and the inability to make a processor run profitably has no bearing on anticipated processor sales.
About pump vs. bash, I PM'd Matt Brown of IHub several years ago regarding the moderators which were universally proponents of the respective stocks and who invariably deleted negative posts and harassed any skeptics. I suggested installing more balanced moderators. Mr. Brown's response was that strongly pro-company moderators resulted in more people paying for IHub subscriptions. He said it was a business decision to install proponents as moderators.
IHub has changed since then, but it's still hardly pro-basher. The iron fist on IHub for the past few years is Shelly who is extremely high strung and controlling. LIke a bad parent, she enables an environment of whining and then gets irked about it. Her style, while coming in every so often like a tornado and letting everyone know who's boss, doesn't appear to have anything to do with targeting longs or shorts.
Underlying that, though, is that there are a lot of scammers running 'companies' who invariably find their way to IHub to talk up their companies. I haven't seen one yet where the pulse of IHub posters wasn't monitored by the fraudsters. For JBI, most if not the entire early board of directors was plucked from IHub posters and Chris Irons was plucked from there as well. IHub is a tool for fraudsters.
There's no money in bashing a penny stock...they're too hard to short and if they were shortable, they would be easy money anyway. The big money is in promoting a stock to create a market for the shares. Not that I think there are paid pumpers, there may be a few shills from the company but I think most often shareholders become pro bono pumpers because of their own financial interest. A critical mass of singing investors provides a cash stream with little additional work on the part of the fraudsters. They sing to friends and family and sing on message boards until it becomes painfully obvious that the wonderful product or technology somehow isn't panning out.