Flawed logic from the original poster who attempts to build a case from flawed logic. Shorting simply does NOT IN ANY WAY (effectively or otherwise) add to the number of shares on issue. If anything, it adds to the free float of EXISTING SHARES to the sell side, which might increase volatility, but that's it. And it certainly is not the same thing.
The original poster has shopped this thread around to at least eight different HC stock sub-forums, in an attempt to whip up hysteria that is based on bloody-minded ignorance.
Sounds very much like a disenchanted holder who is underwater and wanting to blame the market participants, rather than management's poor decisions. I remember Eddy Groves bitterly complaining about the shorters of ABC Learning. And when it went bust and the liquidators moved in the truth was eventually revealled. It didn't paint a pretty picture of management.
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