JDelekto
Regular
Having grown up during the early days of Bulletin Board Systems, Genie, and Delphi forums, and watching the evolution of Usenet and other social media forums over the years, I sense that some of those individuals may not even be trading in the stock.
There are people whose schadenfreude gives them a dopamine hit whenever they get a reaction (especially negative) from random strangers. Unfortunately, stock forums are easy targets for these people, as they know winning or losing money is an emotional rollercoaster. The main people discussing the stock have their money invested with emotional involvement with its gain or loss.
They know people will look at their advertised sentiment before reading their posts, proudly touted as "not held" and "sell". Not necessarily because they are savvy analysts looking to provide free guidance to novice investors who might lose their money, but because they know people will read their sophomoric posts, usually filled with negative or inflammatory content --said content resulting in an emotional flurry of responses from one or more persons.
Once they get this, they've won. They exhibit the behavior of the common internet troll. Posting responses quickly, name-calling, providing a deluge of postings to drown out substantive ones, necroing old threads they know will get a rise from the original poster, or curious others looking for new content on an old topic.
I wish that people in general could peel back the curtain on the intent of these persons and see them for who they are. They don't necessarily need to toggle the ignore on them. This makes the context of the threads an annoying morass to slog through. Instead, I wish they would stop fueling them with a response. Whether they denigrate the stock one invests in or hurl insults at them or their family members, people should learn the art of self-restraint and the patience to ignore these individuals.
Give them enough rope to hang themselves and see them for the internet trolls they truly are as they unmask themselves. Like a fire, remove the oxygen, and they will move on to other easier targets or disappear altogether.
to Germany 
