r/WallStreetBets has gone offline as well: https://i.imgur.com/VySvxSL.png
Private. Not offline.
Same difference. Obviously a subreddit can't go offline without reddit going offline.
Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
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#22The description of wallstreetbets is literally "as if 4chan found a bloomberg terminal", so I don't know what else anyone expected other than 4chan-like-behavior.
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#23Wouldn't it be nice if Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.. banned everyone, and humanity was forced to go back to a pre-social-media lifestyle.
And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that.
Why are you on HN then in the first place?
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#24Was the server partnered? Partner servers are subject to stricter scrutiny (ie the don't-make-us-look-bad-in-public rule).
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#25The subreddit is also ~banned~ private.
A good time to shill Aether :https://getaether.net/
Like reddit, but decentralized and distributed.
They even have a wsb sub.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#26The subreddit is as of now private, too.
Edit: for the curious, according to my open tabs minutes before going private the sub had '3,218,594 readers. 778,127 users here now'
Edit2: The sub is back online and up to '3,577,830 readers' and counting.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#27>“hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.” banned for posting memes like https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/135439073542503628...
WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbow emoji followed by a bear emoji, or even calling people f*gs). Also worth noting that the Discord group is so much worse than WSB the subreddit. Sometimes on the Discord server there are just people spamming the N word for no reason.
And who exactly is hurt here?
I've never heard of this subreddit before, nor it's Discord Server, but I do know that one doesn't just stumble upon either on accident. The only people being hurt here are the ones that went looking to be hurt.
What we have here is a group of immature people, emboldened by internet anonymity, saying stupid things for the "lolz".
Does anyone think they'll be more mature because their server was banned? Of course not... they'll just make a new one, further emboldened by the obvious censorship. Let idiots be idiots, folks... we all know one when we see one.
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#28Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#29Wouldn't it be nice if Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.. banned everyone, and humanity was forced to go back to a pre-social-media lifestyle.
And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that. Why are you on HN then in the first place?
My history class must have skipped over the part where the american revolution was organized on twitter and facebook.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#30With his r/WallStreetBets posts and comments hidden (due to the sub going private), it's interesting to see the u/DeepFuckingValue's comments[1] from a year ago:
The guy has turned $50k into $50M in the one year since those first comments were made, with half of that made yesterday.