I see that the coin is now damaged by some of the hero members and I take that as part of the coin war.
But it does allow to accumulate for these great prices.
I think it has nothing to do with the trolls. It can be probably caused by mining farms using private optimized miners whose mining cost is way lower than current price. In this case this "suppression" won't end until there's a single buy order on exchanges.
any proof to back that up?
That's just the most logical explanation. No point in creating conspiracy theories. Block rewards are still high and miners are constantly dumping the coins. Hopefully incentive rewards will change that.
Yeah, that's just my assumption based on market behaviour. Also private miners for VNL were discussed here previously. It's quite obvious someone is still using them.
And concerning the trolls, I doubt they can make any difference no matter how hard they try. Maybe only for the most useless p'n'd coins, which is not the case here (I hope).