i'm not saying you would ramp shares techman, but a person could set up themselves with various different user names and recommend a particular stock hoping to cash in on any rise in the share price.
i seem to remeber the 'city slickers' in one of the redtop english newspapers were accused of ramping shares, because they bought shares, and then tipped them in their column, and then allegedly profited on the rise in the share price.
I just think
1. a health warning should be put up that the site cannot be relied on for financial advice and that people should check out shares fully before investing in them and
2. people should declare if they own shares that they are discussing
3. posts of the type 'watch this share it is going to rocket' should be banned.
as i said, best of luck with it techman, i have already registered on the site.