RE: Appreciate the Bashers If those who you suspect are really bashers, the extent of your responding to their posts and discussing them is a measure of their success.
For a basher, provoking someone to counter an argument is more advertisments for that argument and more doubt sewn in the minds of the naive. Any exposure is better than none, for their purposes, if they are truly there to undermine confidence in hope of helping a short position or creating a lower entry point for a long.
Thing is that Bashers on message boards are not affecting the large investors.
That is why they often focus on thinly traded cheap stocks with lots of public shareholders.
While some here say they are amused by the supposed bashers, if you want to see them leave, just completely ignore them. They will likely increase their posting when that starts, but after time, they will just give up.