Nah, it's the standard fraud market.  If someone shorts with any type of volume, they will be squeezed and it goes up.  If nobody shorts, it crashes miserably.  In fact, your post is 99.9% likely some Chinese idiot trying to get people to short.  Rule #1 of fraud markets, you are a loser no matter if you go long or short.  The only way to beat fraud markets is not play.  Donating any type of liquidity to fraud markets just helps the scammers behind it.  

This is how they made the price of Ethereum go up.  If anyone shorts, they just take their premine they created out of thin air to Poloniex and leverage it to squeeze them.  I remember some guy whose username started with a C who lost 1000 btc trying to short Eth lol.  There's plenty of people in bitcoin who have coins that are essentially completely free that can do the same thing.