So, I think I finally have some understanding of this game...bro...

So, I think I finally have some understanding of this game...
bro 1 watches porn
bro 2 plays LOL
bro 3 holds both long and short positions but the percentages vary has they play stockpicker
bro 4 borrows shares to short but instead they just sit on them for a while before either giving them to bro 3 to actually short or returning them to the owner unshorted. However while bro 4 has possession of these shares they are listed as being shorted.

bro 2 exists to cover bro 1
bro 4 exists to cover bro 3 and make it impossible to know exactly what bro 3 is doing...

I don't mind bro 3, he is taking a risk albeit with other people's money
But bro 4, that is rubbish, his task is simply to deceive and create the illusion of negative market sentiment though a non existent high short position

and your statement that the total short position is not used as a measure of investor sentiment fails investing 101
I mean for heaven's sake, I have lost count of the number of times either Loopy or Alibaba referred to the high short position as proof that poly's SP was going to tumble...