He was already told he could reply on the forum or directly to me, whichever he preferred.
For transparency's sake, you could tell him to reply only on the thread - that simple, and he's done it already in the past.
Everything else "5000+ shares" belongs in board meetings and NOT discussed on this board.
This is still very much an experiment: We have money, we have an unregulated market, let's try to limit the possibility of manipulation?
I'd have to agree with this as well. No, I don't think that board members are manipulating the price - far from it actually. I'd just say that announcements really should be disseminated from a company representative.