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Hah... The guys on the scox message board automated this pretty well; there was a user named warmcat who even opened sourced some of it. The Reddit comments us
by gbronner 7y ago
Hah... The guys on the scox message board automated this pretty well; there was a user named warmcat who even opened sourced some of it.
The Reddit comments usually aren't long enough to be meaningful, and I think that there are now organised p&d teams, so that level of investigation isn't very useful anymore
- alexpotato 7y ago> The Reddit comments usually aren't long enough to be meaningful, and I think that there are now organised p&d teams, so that level of investigation isn't very useful anymore The Yahoo comments usually weren't that long either. The key point was that while each individual post gave you, on average, only a little but of information, in the aggregate you got enough to narrow down who the source was to within 5 people. From there, you could usually narrow it down using "legwork" etc.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoWith something like Robinhood, where you're trading, presumably they have your bank details (and phone details) so pinning your trades on a irl person is a given.
- desas 7y agoYou'd be surprised what you can get out of short Reddit comments if they're posting in multiple subs for long enough, see https://redditmetis.com/ https://redditmetis.com/ for example.