Up until 2015, price talk was heavily discouraged in /r/Bitcoin. It was all about adoption - new merchants accepting it, new people spending it, new use-cases

Up until 2015, price talk was heavily discouraged in /r/Bitcoin. It was all about adoption - new merchants accepting it, new people spending it, new use-cases enabled by its peer-to-peer electronic cash and immutable and permissionless record-keeping functionality, etc. Everything changed after the 'purge', where the head moderator took a harsh stance against members trying to build consensus for a hard fork that would help realize Bitcoin's potential as a global peer-to-peer electronic cash, and started banning people left and right. The Bitcoin subreddit turned into a full time price pumping forum after that. Ironically, Bitcoin saw more rapid price growth before 2015, when the primary topic of discussion was consciously steered away from price, than after.