After talk got ugly on the thread devoted to e. Though posting PMs isn't a violation of the rules, Mr. Zumbrunnen suggested that members refrain from doing it. Calm returned to the thread, and Mr. Zumbrunnen no longer has it bookmarked. Mr. Zumbrunnen can't always right the alleged wrongs. He can't stop someone from hyping a stock, and he can't stop someone from trashing or even lying about a stock in a posting.
Negative opinions are just as appropriate here as positive opinions are.
We have a lot of intelligent, resourceful members, and if someone posts something about a company that isn't supported by available evidence, it's often quickly and resoundingly refuted. Every day around 7 a.m. Eastern time, Mr. Zumbrunnen goes on a search for spam, the most common violation of the site's use conditions and the most often used to hype a stock. The most egregious violation he ever found was from a subscriber last fall who posted more than 300 identical messages on different threads touting a stock and then had another subscriber reply to the messages. The first person then opened a second account and replied to the responses to make it look like a third, unrelated person liked the stock. Spammers often use this ploy to lend credence to a scam, according to Mr. Zumbrunnen.