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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 oneeyedpigeon »

iso1631 wrote: post #43
skohan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"adoption" is the terminology used by the foundation, and symbolic adoption is a known quantity in this type of operation so I don't have a problem with it. However referring to wallstreet bets users as "investors" does seem like a bit of a misnomer...

I think "investors", with the quotes, is quite accurate "investors" would be wrong ""investors"" would be fine How do you quote this type of quote?

> investors

would be wrong

> "investors"

would be fine

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

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Post by SyzygistSix »

cik wrote: post #80
oakesm9 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like sponsoring them so the charity can protect them from poachers and study them

Ever wonder if we're going about this all wrong. What if the real value was paying poachers to not poach?

There is also work going into building opportunities for the people who are likely to poach.

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

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Post by jedimastert »

make3 wrote: post #23
tener wrote: post #15

The title is confusing, perhaps worth changing "Reddit investors" to "Wall Street Bets users" or something similar. I genuinely thought the article would talk about owners of Reddit, not it's users.

also they don't adopt them, they fund their caretaking. this title is pretty poor.

using the phrase "adopt" to mean "funding the ongoing care of" is pretty common parlance, at least in US-based charities. You can, for example, adopt a highway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adopt-a-Highway

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

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Post by SyzygistSix »

yellowapple wrote: post #32
zozbot234 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just PR, it's literal gorilla marketing!

I feel like this is foreshadowing an era of literal gorilla warfare.

That's been going on for a while now. One of the firearm subreddits gave technical advice and donated parts to the anti-poaching squads that protect gorillas.

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

#106

Post by imtringued »

cik wrote: post #80
oakesm9 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like sponsoring them so the charity can protect them from poachers and study them

Ever wonder if we're going about this all wrong. What if the real value was paying poachers to not poach?

That's a ransom. If you pay once you'll pay twice.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

cik wrote: post #80
oakesm9 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like sponsoring them so the charity can protect them from poachers and study them

Ever wonder if we're going about this all wrong. What if the real value was paying poachers to not poach?

This is going to get extremely expensive:

1) demand, mostly from Asia, for body parts of endangered animals. Unfortunately, the customers are willing to pay a lot of money (a single rhino horn for example can fetch 15.000 $!), and don't care if they actively contribute to the extinction of a species.

2) Enormous poverty in the regions where these endangered animals live. The median wage of South Africa is 17.000 $ - so it's no surprise that many turn to poaching.

Basically the West would need to impose drastic sanctions on China and other Asian countries that act as demand for rare animal parts (not made easier by the fact that the West has a shoddy history itself in that regard, e.g. ivory, and so such politics always has legitimacy/neo-colonialism issues), while at the same time directing massive amounts of money towards eliminating the poverty and establishing alternative, legit jobs for former poachers.

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

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Post by SyzygistSix »

victorp13 wrote: post #63

Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that subreddit? If so it's more like a 'follow this channel', isn't it?

Correct. Although that sounds more like the entire number of reddit users, not just WallStreetBets.
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