why would someone with a short position bash the stock? short are best done at the top of a run. most shorts were probably done at 1.4, 1.5, 1.6........ all those people holding those shorts are golden. you don't need to bash this stock. it's headed to zero one way or another.
Odysseus crossed the river of Styx. He asked Achilles if it was worth trading his life to have his 'name' live forever. Achilles replies: "I would rather be the slave of a slave on earth, then to live here in Hades..." --Homer's The Illiad