Its not a bump and dump tactic as much as it would be an anti-dumping tactic. It helped other coins to stop and with the introduction of pools as soon as BBR hits the top of the profitability list it just gets hammered and dumped. Eventually you won't have any investors left and the project ceases to exists. There needs to be a fine balance and at the moment the downward trend in the market dictates they don't have confidence in BBR. I thought it was a great coin and invested but seeing my BTC equivalent balance continually decrease doesn't look good and many traders will cut their losses and never come back.
The two things that will give BBR a boost in the market would be reducing the coin supply ( You can keep the 10 year mining period but reduce the block reward) as a higher price will compensate miners for finding less blocks and reward early investors (On bitcointalk some people were buying in as high as 0.004 I'm sure they can't be to happy with a 0.0007 price for believing in the coin)
GUI wallet, I know this is in the works and would help with a reversal.
Otherwise we have a great coin that is currently sitting at almost 25% of Moneros price with 90% less coins, right now are market cap is about 90K.