Under Attack17 Aug 2021 20:56
Today has seen an unusually high level of troll activity. Reasons for it can only be guessed at, but perhaps 'someone' sees it as a last chance to manipulate sentiment before the positive news cycle becomes too great.
In some ways it is positive to see, because it it obviously organised - all these new and rarely seen names joining our resident trolls on the same day is no coincidence - so 'someone' must consider there in money to be made through it. Unfortunatley for them, they do not realise that this is one of the most knowledgeable and best researched boards here and the exaggerated negativity will have little affect on sentiment.
Such attacks, while irritating, are almost always short lived, and cannot be prevented. It is no use arguing with them as they will ignore any logic, and sheer numbers will drown out sensible posts. Best just to report them when they become too abusive, or otherwise breach the fairly lax discussion rules.
Note that above I said they were attacking sentiment. Often when accused of trying to talk down SPs, the trolls will respond along the lines of "don't be ridiculous, chat on a BB can have no affect on a share's SP" It begs the question of why do they do it, and also why one of their continuous bleats is the something has to be done to counter the 'blatant ramping'. If chat on a BB is so ineffectual, why do they think ramping would work?