UK 06:10 Wednesday, 23 September 2026
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When, as a writer, you start to point out the failings of a company, its loyal supporters on the Bulletin Boards abuse you. They accuse you of being short, being “paid by derampers”, of having a personal grudge and of being an idiot. Gradually the penny drops. As such I do not exactly “feel the love” coming from the Vialogy (VIY) threads tight now. The Bulletin Board Morons are gathering there in force.
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Comments
wildrides
Directors have no shares ………………….tells you all you need to know.
Sell and put it in LGO ( he says with no bias what so ever , apart from a tiny weany little holding ) Even DL has shares in his outfits.
Sam Jones
Hello Tom. I am reading this blog because I used to be invested in VIY. I sold in 2010 but remain curious about what happened next. But this isn’t about VIY . It’s about your opening comments and reference to ‘bulletin board morons’ and frequent references on the boards to ‘paid derampers’ etc. I think there is a serious article waiting to be written about the psychology of bulletin board posters and whether such creatures as a ‘paid deramper’ are real or myth. You would have thought that such questions would have been put to bed by now but good writing on the subject is thin on the ground. How about a series of articles about bulletin board psychology, morons and derampers.