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No, the article got it right. It's annoyingly common for people commenting on a subreddit to use a shortened name of the subreddit when discussing it. Since red
by NoodleIncident 7y ago
No, the article got it right. It's annoyingly common for people commenting on a subreddit to use a shortened name of the subreddit when discussing it. Since reddit will link you to anything starting with "r/", sometimes there's no subreddit there, sometimes mods will claim it just to be safe, and sometimes it's a cow. (r/cow = r/competitiveoverwatch)
- melq 7y agoWell the parent got it right in that r/wsb and r/wallstreetbets are literally two different subreddits. The former has a lot less volume but it nonetheless exists.
- NoodleIncident 7y agoAny string of "r/<20 or fewer characters>" is a link to a subreddit, which in this case, the mods of the original have happened to create so that no one else squats on it. As used in reddit comments and this article, they are not referring to the actual "r/wsb" subreddit when they type those characters, though; it's just an abbreviation.