RE: not to be too harsh Well to add on to your perspective, "bashers" just like "pumpers" are looking to make money off a stock. A "basher" works by convincing ill informed people (don't care to do Due Diligence or maybe have such little knowledge in an area it is to much of a learning curve) that it isn't a worthy investment thereby the basher is getting a cheaper share price to ride up when the real potential value is realised.
While a "pumpers" tries and convince people that an asset is worth a lot more then what a company has.
Neither a basher or pumper would be working a board if they didnt see opportunity!
IMO- Fine example is Orko silver has pumpers that got the stock price up to the point that a JV partner wasnt willing to buy them at the inflated price and walked away. You can still see pumpers there calling for a 6 dollar stock and succeeded in getting it up to $3.30 where PAN was only wiling to offer just over 2 dollars a share. Point being is educate yourself, find sale references and similar grades and reserves to determine value in your DD attempts.