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Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by chokeartist »

tidepod12 wrote: post #9
rasz wrote: post #2

>“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.

Who cares? Oh yeah. People like you.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by Nextgrid »

Discord, which is funded fully by "growth and engagement", aka has no real product to sell and has employed enough people & burnt too much money to not be sustainable on a $1/month/user fee (even though this would be enough to sustain the operation at scale), is now trying to appeal to potential future investors and/or their friends or business partners by banning the WSB "server".

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by TeMPOraL »

LMYahooTFY wrote: post #96
sickygnar wrote: post #60

Someone likely paid the platforms and/or admins to take them down

What is your assertion based on?

I'm guessing: probability estimates. Realistically speaking, they had every opportunity to enact this ban before, and freedom to do so after the #gamestonk bonanza dies down. So why act now?

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by rory »

BoorishBears wrote: post #79
rory wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've officially ticked off rich and well-connected people, so regulators are coming to shake the tree branch (I have no idea whether what they're doing is illegal or not) and the platforms want to distance themselves from that ASAP.

I made another comment, people are really letting logic fail them in order to push a narrative. The server was vile. Moderation used racial slurs casually. Suddenly thousands of new people are flooding into the server from WSB on Reddit where the standard is obviously higher than that. What do you think happens to report numbers? They skyrocket with user count! Suddenly all eyes are on a truly vile corner of Discord…

Not sure what the "narrative" you're projecting on me is? The administration literally announced they are monitoring the online stock pumping situation. That's a pretty fair motivation for Discord to drop a stock pumping server.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by nexuist »

walrus01 wrote: post #22

The 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.

Apparently a lot of people don't want there to be a place where 4chan-like-behavior can be found on the Internet.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by johncessna »

>Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.”

Funny how that works. If they're not careful, people might start to think 'Hate Speech' could be misused to pursue an agenda. 'It's not that I disagree with what they are doing, they should have just called each other assholes instead of the X word so now the whole thing has to go'

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by llampx »

BoorishBears wrote: post #69
qqn wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?

I joined and had an extremely negative experience immediately, left, and reported it. This was months ago. Imagine suddenly thousands of people are doing this and now Discord is being flooded with reports. - Something some people might not know as well, there was another WSB Discord started by Jartek that used to be linked on the subreddit That Discord was much more tame even with minimal moderation. No racial or hom…

So no porn, racism or homophobia. What offended you?

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by idolaspecus »

rory wrote: post #81
tidepod12 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incredibly naive to think that WSB itself isn't filled with rich and well-connected people. In its early days, WSB was almost entirely a bunch of rich wall street traders with extra tens/hundreds of thousands to spare on crazy bets. Nowadays, it's one of the largest subreddits on one of the largest websites in the world. WSB isn't some niche gathering of "average joes" - all of the major wall street firms monitor it,…

I'm incredibly naive to think something I didn't claim, allude to, or comment on at all? Rich and well-connected people can tick off other rich and well-connected people.

This is a really good example of a type of hidden bigotry in a good chunk of the rhetoric from the left. Of course you made said claim because all rich people are in cahoots because their wealth is the single dimension which completely defines them.
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