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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by NoodleIncident on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:05PM (#22428442)
No, the article got it right. It's annoyingly common for people commenting on a subreddit to use a shortened name of the subreddit when discussing it. Since reddit will link you to anything starting with "r/", sometimes there's no subreddit there, sometimes mods will claim it just to be safe, and sometimes it's a cow. (r/cow = r/competitiveoverwatch)
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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by melq on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:13PM (#22428985)
Well the parent got it right in that r/wsb and r/wallstreetbets are literally two different subreddits. The former has a lot less volume but it nonetheless exists.
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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by NoodleIncident on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:31PM (#22436188)
Any string of "r/<20 or fewer characters>" is a link to a subreddit, which in this case, the mods of the original have happened to create so that no one else squats on it. As used in reddit comments and this article, they are not referring to the actual "r/wsb" subreddit when they type those characters, though; it's just an abbreviation.
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