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

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Anyone who's committed a 'sin' should be banished from the community. Guess now in a few hundred years cycle again and we'll discover the legal system and curtail the power of the new church. History repeats.

Religion never really disappears from us, even if we claim to be atheist. What changes is who the “high priests” are, what their revelations reveal, and of course what we worship.

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

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Problem is there are no competitors worth mentioning.

Disclaimer: Excuse me if my statements are possibly utterly wrong due to me not having ever used Discord. Wikipedia says: > Discord is an American VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. Don't we have a metric fton of instant messengers which support VoIP and some file transfer? What's so special about Discord? To me as an outsider it merely seems like the kids hav…

I think The issue with teamspeak and Ventrilo were...cost. Kids couldn't afford hosting a server.

Additionally, it was stupid easy to evade bans on those platforms and troll for hours if Admins weren't on.

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

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Some posts below said that banning for hate speech was really a charade. But if that's true, what's wrong with retail investors pooling their resources to squeeze short? How is it different from a hedge fund pooling resources to flex their muscle of financial engineering?

There wouldn't be anything wrong with that. There'd be a lot right with it, honestly - I would be trumpeting it as a clear victory of the little guy over snobby funds who don't think anyone else can understand finance. But what's happening right now is almost certainly a pump and dump with a short squeeze as a facade. I've seen a lot of commenters who seem to be grievously misled about the actual mechanics of a short…

Discord is the new SEC now?

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

#514

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why does everybody assume there is not some hedge fund behind this short squeeze? Do hedge funds not know how to do social media marketing? Why go on CNBC to announce your position when you can pay some kids and influencers to shitpost on wsb to rile up an online mob and leave no fingerprints? It is crazy to me how ppl continually fall for this stuff? How does any mass online movement not trigger skepticism? I mean l…

> Kony 2012

I always thought that Kony 2012 was just a dry-run for these sorts of things. I've never been able to figure out who did it though.

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

#515

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

This is what everyone on discord gets for using an app like this. We all warned you years ago when you moved to it.

Mailing lists for slow stuff and IRC for throw away realtime chats.

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

#516

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

It’s very easy to make this point without using slurs yourself.

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

#517
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And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really? I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or…

I agree decentralized platforms need more push, but we also need better advertising than WSB type of case, so we get nice communities on them.

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

#518

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

The problem for you is that you can make the exactly same argument without the words that people object to and it will upset no one and lie unmoderated.

You're being moderated for rudeness and not your opinion.

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

#519

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing.

You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to throw you out of my house for it. Don't complain about the 'PC police' when the truth is that no one is interested in unoriginal arguments made poorly.

Grow up.

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

#520
post #14

And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really? I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or…

WSB goes private all the time. They do it to "cool the jets" so to speak. They will likely be doing it a lot more in the coming days.

The parent comment is not talking about WSB going private (which you're right, it does happen from time to time by the mods for housekeeping). But they're actually talking about Discord shutting down WSB servers - for those unfamiliar, WSB subreddit also had an official discord server which was quite active.
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