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> Did you see that the Reddit message board is no longer accessible... It’s eerily familiar, like we’re relying on Reddit to be a corrective force the way we re
by deelowe 6y ago
> Did you see that the Reddit message board is no longer accessible... It’s eerily familiar, like we’re relying on Reddit to be a corrective force the way we relied on Twitter or Facebook to shut down Trump.
This is completely fabricated. I have no confidence in the article at this point. The sub was back up within an hour or so and the stated reason for taking the sub private (it was never "offline") from the mods was that there was a lot of spam/bot traffic they needed to deal with.
- swiley 6y agoYeah, I use that sub occasionally to inform trading and didn't even notice it went down.
- tester756 6y agoI did notice
- epistasis 6y agoSo much media is already spinning this to slot it into their preferred narratives. This type of topic, stock market strategies that not many people understand, is easy enough of a narrative to manipulate. Manipulating more easily understood facts, like a subreddit going private to stop bots, seems lazy!
- BoorishBears 6y agoWhat's ironic is in previous times WSB would have gone private long ago... Pre "WSBGod" the sub hated sudden influxes of new users who'd ask dumb questions and make lazy attempts at humor. GME is the perfect example of a time when the sub would normally go straight to private with flaired users only allowed to enter Now post that the community has gotten even noiser and less coherent so I think they've given up and just decided to roll with it.
- scruple 6y agoYes, exactly. I moved on from r/WSB around 2017. The problem today is that the GME/WSB effect is bleeding outside of the containment board. It's infested every online space that I frequent and as of this week has also moved into meat space.
- NDizzle 6y agoI'm glad the media is consistently showing their true colors. More and more people will begin to realize that Trump was exactly right about the media.
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- GizmoSwan 6y agoThat board has gone private multiple times and many times it has been before or after big events. One of the mods resigned few weeks ago stating that the board was being overrun to pump certain stocks and that he was powerless to prevent it for various reasons. This was coming and expected because a good pump and dump needs pawns. It this case many of the pawns are not dumb anymore.