Most bashers are bored broke idiots with horrific investing track records.

Some of them got slaughtered in the market then became real estate agents right at the peak in real estate and got slaughtered at that too.  They feel helpless and this empowers them a bit.

I doubt very many of them are shorts if any of them.  Naked shorting is illegal, and there's few regular short shares in the stock.  If there are illegal naked shorts (which I don't think there is), then I doubt those people even post much or at all as they would do so accross a variety of stocks and/or wouldn't hang around 1 forever.  I say this as an ex naked shorter myself back when it was legal and how other naked shorters would operate.  It's all about the quick hit and runs most of the time or short and forget about it.