At least one of your statements is dead wrong;
"Trying to suggest the lack of size on the reported short positions is meaningful is ludicrous and everyone reading this board knows it".
I read the board and I think that the naked short story is ludicrous, with the reported short position being correct.
Particularly telling is how the NSS relies on the accuracy of the daily Reg Sho report, but then relies on the absence of EIGH from the Reg Sho Threshold security list, which is based on the same Reg Sho data, being a mistake.