Good to see that the establishment's broad and growing power to censor speech won't be abused. We're in good hands.
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
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is nothing wrong with the word retard. It’s a legitimate dictionary word. Every few years the PC police has to arbitrarily decide that something is morally unfashionable and then they convince everyone that if they don’t replace it with an equivalent string, they’re somehow bad people. It makes no sense and everyone goes along with it. Whatever the current replacement is, that will probably be disallowed in a f…
> There is nothing wrong with the word retard. Well, sure, in that it's a word with lots of nonproblematic uses. > It’s a legitimate dictionary word. This implies probably a more normative role for dictionaries than is appropriate, but, sure, it is. However, as a noun applied to people (as distinct from the verb meaning “to slow down” or the noun meaning “a slowing down”) it’s one which every dictionary I can find fl…
Maybe I’m a bad person, but this is my take. If someone uses the r word once in a while. Like it slips out when High school slang mode kicks in, I’m Okay. If it’s someone’s go to word, I feel that person is on the uncouth side of things. I’m not going to report someone to HR over it, or terminate a friendship, but I may minimize interaction with them.
But that goes for all excess vulgarity not just the r word. It’s not that I’m offended, but it’s a personal taste for less crassness.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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). For what is worth, they pretty much never use it actually insultingly, and do not seem to harbor any ill-will against LGBT people (and some of them are lgbt). They also mostly use those words to…
Agree. I'm fairly certain a lot of the posts are self-deprecating - eg. "my wife's boyfriend", "i'm a r**d", "someone smarter than me", "i'm a gay bear". My wife doesn't have a boyfriend (hopefully), but I'd say that in a post there. This isn't necessarily inflammatory. It is - like it or not - WSB's culture. It is not meant to be taken literally. It is a frothy place, full of herd mentality. That is part of the cliq…
That's like saying that southerners flying confederate flags is "just their culture, not meant to be taken literally". That dog don't hunt.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
For large groups, Discord is generally more strict about community guidelines than Reddit.
For large public* groups. The large private groups are basically 1990s Yahoo! chat rooms, complete with racism, bullying, criminal activity and child grooming. They only get caught when they get infiltrated, or when members self-report. https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-where-teens-rule-and-pa... https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/29/disco...
Indeed, I saw it with my own eyes when my daughter went on it, luckily we manage to realise what is going on. It is crazy that they ban WSB or Trump but let pedos do their thing without a problem.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#145Ridiculous. Can’t believe we’re raising a generation of such fragile people. The WSB banter is pretty tame, if not pretty juvenile. Who cares. Don’t join the chat if you don’t enjoy their company. That’s the route I took.
This has nothing to do with the banter and everything to do with who's ox is being gored in the short squeeze.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
The r word isn’t nice. But that cannot be the reason to ban the server. This sounds like an excuse. They mention fraud several times -but say it’s NOT because of fraud— but I almost perceive a wink when they mention it like that.
> The mention fraud several times -but say it’s NOT because of fraud— but I almost receive a wink when they mention it like that. Their full statement as quoted in the linked article denies that the ban is for "financial fraud" but includes "spreading misinformation" as one of the reasons for the ban. I don't see any contradiction or winking involved. People who repeatedly spread hate speech and discriminatory conten…
> People who repeatedly spread "hate speech" and "discriminatory content" and "glorify violence" after repeated warnings not to do so are pretty likely to be spreading a wide variety of "misinformation" other than financial fraud.
None of these things (in quotes) can even be defined, and anyone who believes that the government or some tech oligarch is going to be a fair judge must have been born yesterday. It's ridiculous how we can both simultaneously criticize countries like China, but at the same time encourage the exact same types of suppression in our own Westernized way.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thought crossed my mind too, but if so then why?
well the r/wsb subreddit has gone private too. We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back. This seems like a DDOS attack on r/wsb well knowing that the moderators canno…
I would assume ; Deny your enemy everything you can. - ie communication.
And yes I am insinuating that this is wall street money pulling strings.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#148Did Melvin actually close their positions? Some are claiming they haven't.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#149Someone likely paid the platforms and/or admins to take them down
Did you're read the article, and the statement Discord put out? I think the stated reason is the believable. > 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.”
I think at this point every single unpopular or questionable action made by an institution is going to go with a "it's to prevent hate/discrimination" justification. It's an easy way to get a credulous mob on your side; you can always nutpick random examples; and if someone argues against it they just prove they're one of the racists/whatever.
Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
#150Getting really sick and tired of these platforms deciding on a whim on who to allow access. Either moderate everyone or no one!