Claritas Pharmaceuticals Inc V.CLAS.H

How to identify tactics of a basher

[PTBailey]

Some of the info below is from a paid basher see if you recognize any of these tactics or individuals to do this on this board.

This from a paid basher...

There are three types of bashers - Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner.

An Advanced-level basher (also known as a Silver Tongued Devil) would spread false or misleading information about the company. They would deal in facts, countering every longs post with articles, news reports and opinion surveys that gave a negative impression about the company.

An Intermediate-level basher (also known as a Serpent) would try to weasel their way into the confidence of longs and create doubt using rumor or innuendo.

Finally, a Beginner-level basher (also known as a Pitchfork) would attempt to create confusion in the room by distracting other posters with satire, name calling and pointless arguments. The idea was to make sure no serious discussion of the stock could take place. A Pitchfork was usually a basher, but not always. 

I was a Pitchfork. I was paid a base wage of $12 an hour for my services. I was given a $1 bonus for every post over 100 per day as well as a monthly bonus of $100 for every penny the stock had dropped from the previous month. I was also paid a bonus for bashing on weekends. While this may not sound like much, I made a decent, though dishonorable, paycheck.

First, we have to develop a character and stay within that character in order to build a “following.” My character, “Firebird_1965,” was a sarcastic, obnoxious supporter of free speech, but only when it came to bashers.

Next, we had to follow certain guidelines on what we could say. We were urged to have an “answer” to every long's question, but we were to frame that answer in a way that ridiculed the questioner for asking such a question. 

Paid bashers  get paid by the reply. Each time you respond to them they earn money. So if you respond to them you are paying them.

Ask yourself: why would a person who doesn't own a stock put in the time and effort to bash it? Why would a person who supposedly has a job spend all day posting to bash your investment? What would they have to gain? If they can spend all day bashing a stock and engaging you in a stupid debate in a stock they don't even own what on earth is in it for them? Money, that's what.