Several years back I used to hold Shore Gold (now goes by the name Star Diamond Corp T.DIAM)

After numerous financings and almost getting voted out at the annual AGM, management tried to placate their investors by doing a financing available only to shareholders who were on record as of a certain date. If I remember correctly (I did not participate) they offered 1 share + 1 half warrant. It seemed to calm the shareholders for a while at least.

POET could reward the faithfull longs with a similar approach, the only draw back is no new institutional investments which management wants.

Just a thought.