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

Post by daniel-thompson » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #54

astine wrote: post #46

For those of us not in the know, what is so special about today regarding WSB? I know there's a feud with short sellers going on, but I haven't been following the details.

Someone went from 50k to 50M by igniting a short squeeze. All eyes were on the WSB subreddit, and discord server. Now both are private or offline. No one has any chance to coordinate now. Discord’s action is effectively market manipulation in a literal sense, because this is certainly going to affect the market. I’m curious why the sub went private though. EDIT: I regret my phrasing. I didn’t mean this was illegal ma…

Post by ntsplnkv2 » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:13 AM UTC

dmurray wrote: post #276

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #258

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4chan hosts it's own server: — how could it? Cloudflare did drop 8chan for political pressure. Both also have a very undeserved reputation. I saw news reports on 8chan as if it were something similar to Stormfront . The front page was mostly video game and pornography and one had to search very deep into it's hidden circles to find racial supremacy content.

> 4chan hosts it's own server: — how could it? ISPs could just drop their customers' traffic to that server. This happens all the time and has happened to 4chan before. Or they could go further and refuse to peer with any ISP that doesn't block 4chan, or lobby to have the government compel ISPs to block it, likely on think-of-the-children or think-of-the-terrorism grounds. Self hosting definitely isn't some magic way…

Post by wolfram74 » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

bostonsre wrote: post #317

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You might have some points to make but you lost me at "All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core." Sweeping generalities like this are anathema to discourse.

Idk, it kind of sounds plausible to me. I don't see the Wallstreet bets sub reddit starting a revolution, protests or suddenly running for office to enact change. Do you?

Post by convery » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

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As an ex-scientologist, I know how labeling websites "Hate Speech" can be abused. It's only when I ignored their "Hate Speech" warnings that I was able to figure out the fraud that is Scientology.

Yeah, I'm sure those people spamming racial and sexual slurs have something to teach us if we would just listen. /s

Post by vmh1928 » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #316

fennecfoxen wrote: post #243

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The timing was more or less "hey this pump and dump scam on our platform is getting a bunch of negative attention." People seem to think they were paid off by some big players. Ha! In their dreams.

There is no pump and dump scheme that haven't been allowed by the hedge funds for decades.