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WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by Milner08 »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #2

I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?

Maybe you should actually read things before jumping to conclusions.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by Bootvis »

gregoriol wrote: post #9
pdpi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.

It's likely that the "mob" who did this considers such action as a joke, they are not really people with good intentions, more like trolling intentions. Even-though the outcome here looks positive, I don't think it's any good. They could as well have bought gallons of oil and spilled it in the ocean if it had been a good joke for them.

You assume them to be trolls only capable of evil deeds so they must be trolls doing evil. That’s both a bad world outlook and bad logic.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by tehwebguy »

gregoriol wrote: post #9
pdpi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.

It's likely that the "mob" who did this considers such action as a joke, they are not really people with good intentions, more like trolling intentions. Even-though the outcome here looks positive, I don't think it's any good. They could as well have bought gallons of oil and spilled it in the ocean if it had been a good joke for them.

Yeah it would have been better if they had good intentions and completely failed to do anything of value?

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by himlion »

gregoriol wrote: post #9
pdpi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.

It's likely that the "mob" who did this considers such action as a joke, they are not really people with good intentions, more like trolling intentions. Even-though the outcome here looks positive, I don't think it's any good. They could as well have bought gallons of oil and spilled it in the ocean if it had been a good joke for them.

I don't agree with you at all. You can't blanket condemn a community of over 8 million people. Sure there are trolls, a lot of money is lost by naive people, but there are plenty of decent people there who just like participating in that culture for fun.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by pelasaco »

moooo99 wrote: post #3
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #2

I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?

How is that greenwashing? Those are private individuals, not corporations.

One could interpret it as greenwashing for sure. Like who dares to act like a reddit community of people helping cute gorillas? IMO that's exactly the kind of tension that they want to create. Transforming it in a meme, would be the superhero sweating, having to decide between button A (Save Wallstreet) or button B (Save the cute Gorillas)
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