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The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?

by qqn 6y ago

f430 6y ago
well the r/wsb subreddit has gone private too. We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back. This seems like a DDOS attack on r/wsb well knowing that the moderators cannot keep up with moderation? Or is this simply a case of getting too popular for Reddit? The fact that discord was banned around the same time as r/wsb going private is suspect. edit: After hours market shows GME is has TANKED!!!! Closed at 345 and dipped to 248. Holy, there will be class action lawsuits for sure now. edit: I've been on the phone for 2 hours waiting for my broker to answer. All of this seems weird. They SUDDENLY have volatility and decide today is the day to stop answering my calls??? edit: /u/DeepFuckingValue's posts have all been wiped!!!!! WTF!
- deleted 6y ago
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- weston 6y ago
  r/wallstreetbets Edit: that seems to be private now too?
  - f430 6y ago
    check this out from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680#25935933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680#25935933 I think the SEC thread created this morning had something to do with going private. It isn't the first time they've gone private but this time with the discord being banned and all, im getting ban vibes. Look if Discord can ban WSB over some cuss words, imagine what Reddit can do. I'm on the phone with my broker as we speak and now I fear that this is a coordinated attack. edit: so after I made that comment about github's half assed apology towards the guy that they terminated for saying "watch out for nazis", those same group of people are downvoting and flagging every single one of my comments. AGAIN. You didn't care when people were bringing attention to the anti-semitic memes being posted on Github 4 years ago, now you want to bury every fucking comment, just like the angry hedge fund managers getting their revenge on serfs making a little money.
    - pas 6y ago
      It's private because the mods and the community cannot handle the sudden interest. (A subreddit squeeze!) They even say this on the placeholder page. A few hours ago zjz (a mod) posted about trying to get an unlimited API endpoint for Reddit from the admins so the mod bots can cope with the load. "We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back."
      - deleted 6y ago
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      - Macha 6y ago
        Why do they mention ensuring reddit's content policy? That's a hammer admins bring out when they want to ban a subreddit. Did admins lean on the mods? It's been bringing bad press on Reddit and that's usually the trigger for the admins to enforce their content policy. (see the Donald, racist subs, fat people hate, violentacrez, jailbait - while these clearly did violate their policies, it took bad PR for enforcement to happen)
        weston 6y ago
        My guess is this means the mods will probably create a minimum Reddit karma amount required to post and/or comment. The goal to cut down on spam and bots. So, new people can’t join in and immediately start trying to pump up random stocks. WSB is getting flooded right now, so the mods are building in some auto-moderator things to get a handle on the subreddit.
        intended 6y ago
        Probably additional cover so that people reporting on this issue remember that there exists a reddit wide content policy that all subreddits have to enforce - so if there is any issue, reddit is also in the picture.
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  - pas 6y ago
    It's because there was too much noise. Spam, new 0 karma accounts creating threads and posting the wrong kind of shitposts, etc. It was virtually inevitable.
    - tpmx 6y ago
      I tried to comment there with a 14+ day old throwaway account 4 hours ago and was met with a bot deleting the comment. "It looks like your account is too new to use /r/wallstreetbets. Sorry about that, but people use new accounts to spam us all the time. Please don't ask when you can be approved because we're going to say no and then laugh at you. Your account must be one month old at least."
    - neosavvy 6y ago
      What about folks with old low karma real accounts. Lame.
- Seanambers 6y ago
  I would assume ; Deny your enemy everything you can. - ie communication. And yes I am insinuating that this is wall street money pulling strings.
  - throwawayboise 6y ago
    When you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
    - cbozeman 6y ago
      Well they messed with the retards, and they're about to get the strength come tomorrow. Diamond hands all the way.
    - jxramos 6y ago
      dang, if everyone's gonna go all conspiracy theory my thoughts land on deep state + wall street => deep street
  - jaycroft 6y ago
    Denying communication completely could be a disaster in this case. In the absence of their precious DD, what number do you think the WSB'rs are going to choose to set their limits at? 420.69 seems a little too low right now. My bet would be 42,069 at least.
- meowkit 6y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue/ Doesn't look like they were wiped?
  - astrange 6y ago
    Reddit servers were really unstable for a bit, I've noticed user pages don't load when that happens. Seems a lot of people see conspiracies in caching issues.
- rvz 6y ago
  1 hour later after your post, the sub-reddit is back (again), which is unsurprising since this isn't the first time. They're not fuckin leaving that easily and the show goes on. > edit: After hours market shows GME is has TANKED!!!! Closed at 345 and dipped to 248. Holy, there will be class action lawsuits for sure now. Good. Great time to buy more til the big short squeeze. Can't stop, won't stop, next stop? GameStop.
- hartator 6y ago
  Is it r/wsb or r/wallstreebet? The former is private but the later is still public.
BoorishBears 6y ago
I joined and had an extremely negative experience immediately, left, and reported it. This was months ago. Imagine suddenly thousands of people are doing this and now Discord is being flooded with reports. - Something some people might not know as well, there was another WSB Discord started by Jartek that used to be linked on the subreddit That Discord was much more tame even with minimal moderation. No racial or homophobic slurs, but still allowing most if not all content people wanted to bring up short of porn... Post scandal the subreddit changed back to this Discord, which was a mistake. It really was a vile server. - Edit because now I'm rate limited over vindicating downvotes from people mourning that dumpster :) Crazy how every direct reply to me has needed someone else to correct them. I guess my comment was coherent enough for people not foaming at the mouth to cry over some racist dumpster fire of a server... - Again, there were two servers One was linked in the subreddit, had minimal moderation, policed really hard slurs like ni*er, allowed shitposting all you wanted otherwise. That one gained traction while WSBGod's saga was going on. - The one I referenced which is the one deleted today, where mods were throwing n bombs for fun, was mostly regarded as an embarrassing weird place people might stumble upon from Google. You couldn't even find it easily, someone had to invite you directly and some of them weirdly saw those invites as a favor (that's how I was invited there, someone liked one of my DDs in the main server and thought they were inviting me to sit with the cool kids... right.) It wasn't tied to the subreddit and referred to itself as the "OG Discord" because it existed before the subreddit officially tied itself to a discord server. - Jartek's "saga" took place, and because he had created the well regarded Discord server the link was replaced with one to the outright vile server. Today the outright vile one was banned. Good riddance.
- llampx 6y ago
  So no porn, racism or homophobia. What offended you?
  - tidepod12 6y ago
    Re-read his comment. The Discord that was wiped certainly did have plenty of porn, racism, and homophobia.
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ashtonkem 6y ago
Risk of SEC involvement. This admin is probably nowhere near as lenient on this kind of stuff as the last was, and the recent nonsense with GameStop is probably bad enough to attract negative regulatory attention.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  That’s the joke. The SEC pursues the mostly harmless while letting the sharks go free. Did they do anything about naked short selling of Overstock stock? Nope, and now that it’s happened again and retail took advantage of a bad trade, the rules suddenly change “to protect the little guy.” It’s disingenuous at a minimum, and crony capitalism when taken to the maximum. Are they doing anything about Nancy Pelosi (her husband Paul to be specific) buying Tesla calls before bills were brought forth with generous EV charging network subsidies? “Nothing to see here.” (Nothing against Pelosi and not intended as whataboutism, picked because it was top of mind from some research today and the disparity of enforcement) Edit: Pump and dump schemes absolutely should not be supported. Piling into a short squeeze is not a pump and dump scheme. Edit 2: https://i.imgur.com/SZJ9XEa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.com/SZJ9XEa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
  - hhjinks 6y ago
    It's crony capitalism at minimum, and absolutely disgustingly oppressive at the maximum. These people seemingly are physically unable to let "the little guy" have even a whiff of financial independence.
  - throwawayboise 6y ago
    > Nothing against Pelosi Nothing against Pelosi? If that's as it appears to me (trading on insider information, by a person in a position of public trust no less) she needs to be heavily fined, in prison, or both.
    - protomyth 6y ago
      Congress had an exemption up until recently on all insider trading so it wasn't illegal for her. It's good to write the rules. Looking at the starting and retiring net worth of a Congress person is a bit painful.

The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?

by qqn 6y ago

The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?

f430 6y ago

well the r/wsb subreddit has gone private too. We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back. This seems like a DDOS attack on r/wsb well knowing that the moderators cannot keep up with moderation? Or is this simply a case of getting too popular for Reddit? The fact that discord was banned around the same time as r/wsb going private is suspect. edit: After hours market shows GME is has TANKED!!!! Closed at 345 and dipped to 248. Holy, there will be class action lawsuits for sure now. edit: I've been on the phone for 2 hours waiting for my broker to answer. All of this seems weird. They SUDDENLY have volatility and decide today is the day to stop answering my calls??? edit: /u/DeepFuckingValue's posts have all been wiped!!!!! WTF!

deleted 6y ago
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weston 6y ago
r/wallstreetbets Edit: that seems to be private now too?
- f430 6y ago
  check this out from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680#25935933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680#25935933 I think the SEC thread created this morning had something to do with going private. It isn't the first time they've gone private but this time with the discord being banned and all, im getting ban vibes. Look if Discord can ban WSB over some cuss words, imagine what Reddit can do. I'm on the phone with my broker as we speak and now I fear that this is a coordinated attack. edit: so after I made that comment about github's half assed apology towards the guy that they terminated for saying "watch out for nazis", those same group of people are downvoting and flagging every single one of my comments. AGAIN. You didn't care when people were bringing attention to the anti-semitic memes being posted on Github 4 years ago, now you want to bury every fucking comment, just like the angry hedge fund managers getting their revenge on serfs making a little money.
  - pas 6y ago
    It's private because the mods and the community cannot handle the sudden interest. (A subreddit squeeze!) They even say this on the placeholder page. A few hours ago zjz (a mod) posted about trying to get an unlimited API endpoint for Reddit from the admins so the mod bots can cope with the load. "We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back."
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - Macha 6y ago
      Why do they mention ensuring reddit's content policy? That's a hammer admins bring out when they want to ban a subreddit. Did admins lean on the mods? It's been bringing bad press on Reddit and that's usually the trigger for the admins to enforce their content policy. (see the Donald, racist subs, fat people hate, violentacrez, jailbait - while these clearly did violate their policies, it took bad PR for enforcement to happen)
      - weston 6y ago
        My guess is this means the mods will probably create a minimum Reddit karma amount required to post and/or comment. The goal to cut down on spam and bots. So, new people can’t join in and immediately start trying to pump up random stocks. WSB is getting flooded right now, so the mods are building in some auto-moderator things to get a handle on the subreddit.
      - intended 6y ago
        Probably additional cover so that people reporting on this issue remember that there exists a reddit wide content policy that all subreddits have to enforce - so if there is any issue, reddit is also in the picture.
  - deleted 6y ago
- pas 6y ago
  It's because there was too much noise. Spam, new 0 karma accounts creating threads and posting the wrong kind of shitposts, etc. It was virtually inevitable.
  - tpmx 6y ago
    I tried to comment there with a 14+ day old throwaway account 4 hours ago and was met with a bot deleting the comment. "It looks like your account is too new to use /r/wallstreetbets. Sorry about that, but people use new accounts to spam us all the time. Please don't ask when you can be approved because we're going to say no and then laugh at you. Your account must be one month old at least."
  - neosavvy 6y ago
    What about folks with old low karma real accounts. Lame.
Seanambers 6y ago
I would assume ; Deny your enemy everything you can. - ie communication. And yes I am insinuating that this is wall street money pulling strings.
- throwawayboise 6y ago
  When you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
  - cbozeman 6y ago
    Well they messed with the retards, and they're about to get the strength come tomorrow. Diamond hands all the way.
  - jxramos 6y ago
    dang, if everyone's gonna go all conspiracy theory my thoughts land on deep state + wall street => deep street
- jaycroft 6y ago
  Denying communication completely could be a disaster in this case. In the absence of their precious DD, what number do you think the WSB'rs are going to choose to set their limits at? 420.69 seems a little too low right now. My bet would be 42,069 at least.
meowkit 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue/ Doesn't look like they were wiped?
- astrange 6y ago
  Reddit servers were really unstable for a bit, I've noticed user pages don't load when that happens. Seems a lot of people see conspiracies in caching issues.
rvz 6y ago
1 hour later after your post, the sub-reddit is back (again), which is unsurprising since this isn't the first time. They're not fuckin leaving that easily and the show goes on. > edit: After hours market shows GME is has TANKED!!!! Closed at 345 and dipped to 248. Holy, there will be class action lawsuits for sure now. Good. Great time to buy more til the big short squeeze. Can't stop, won't stop, next stop? GameStop.
hartator 6y ago
Is it r/wsb or r/wallstreebet? The former is private but the later is still public.

BoorishBears 6y ago

I joined and had an extremely negative experience immediately, left, and reported it. This was months ago. Imagine suddenly thousands of people are doing this and now Discord is being flooded with reports. - Something some people might not know as well, there was another WSB Discord started by Jartek that used to be linked on the subreddit That Discord was much more tame even with minimal moderation. No racial or homophobic slurs, but still allowing most if not all content people wanted to bring up short of porn... Post scandal the subreddit changed back to this Discord, which was a mistake. It really was a vile server. - Edit because now I'm rate limited over vindicating downvotes from people mourning that dumpster :) Crazy how every direct reply to me has needed someone else to correct them. I guess my comment was coherent enough for people not foaming at the mouth to cry over some racist dumpster fire of a server... - Again, there were two servers One was linked in the subreddit, had minimal moderation, policed really hard slurs like ni*er, allowed shitposting all you wanted otherwise. That one gained traction while WSBGod's saga was going on. - The one I referenced which is the one deleted today, where mods were throwing n bombs for fun, was mostly regarded as an embarrassing weird place people might stumble upon from Google. You couldn't even find it easily, someone had to invite you directly and some of them weirdly saw those invites as a favor (that's how I was invited there, someone liked one of my DDs in the main server and thought they were inviting me to sit with the cool kids... right.) It wasn't tied to the subreddit and referred to itself as the "OG Discord" because it existed before the subreddit officially tied itself to a discord server. - Jartek's "saga" took place, and because he had created the well regarded Discord server the link was replaced with one to the outright vile server. Today the outright vile one was banned. Good riddance.

llampx 6y ago
So no porn, racism or homophobia. What offended you?
- tidepod12 6y ago
  Re-read his comment. The Discord that was wiped certainly did have plenty of porn, racism, and homophobia.

deleted 6y ago

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ashtonkem 6y ago

Risk of SEC involvement. This admin is probably nowhere near as lenient on this kind of stuff as the last was, and the recent nonsense with GameStop is probably bad enough to attract negative regulatory attention.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
That’s the joke. The SEC pursues the mostly harmless while letting the sharks go free. Did they do anything about naked short selling of Overstock stock? Nope, and now that it’s happened again and retail took advantage of a bad trade, the rules suddenly change “to protect the little guy.” It’s disingenuous at a minimum, and crony capitalism when taken to the maximum. Are they doing anything about Nancy Pelosi (her husband Paul to be specific) buying Tesla calls before bills were brought forth with generous EV charging network subsidies? “Nothing to see here.” (Nothing against Pelosi and not intended as whataboutism, picked because it was top of mind from some research today and the disparity of enforcement) Edit: Pump and dump schemes absolutely should not be supported. Piling into a short squeeze is not a pump and dump scheme. Edit 2: https://i.imgur.com/SZJ9XEa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.com/SZJ9XEa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
- hhjinks 6y ago
  It's crony capitalism at minimum, and absolutely disgustingly oppressive at the maximum. These people seemingly are physically unable to let "the little guy" have even a whiff of financial independence.
- throwawayboise 6y ago
  > Nothing against Pelosi Nothing against Pelosi? If that's as it appears to me (trading on insider information, by a person in a position of public trust no less) she needs to be heavily fined, in prison, or both.
  - protomyth 6y ago
    Congress had an exemption up until recently on all insider trading so it wasn't illegal for her. It's good to write the rules. Looking at the starting and retiring net worth of a Congress person is a bit painful.