This kind of cocooning and message control happens when the people asking questions are smarter and more savvy than those who have to answer.
Couple that with the obvious mistakes made by the non-market-savvy mgmt, their complete inability to send out coherent news releases, their poor message and presentation skills when selling/talking about POET, and you have the perfect scenario for the clamp down.
Blaming this shut down in communication on the volume of enquiries is a ruse, and disrespectful in the extreme.