Not sure what the "narrative" you're projecting on me is? The administration literally announced they are monitoring the online stock pumping situation. That's a pretty fair motivation for Discord to drop a stock pumping server.

How does that reconcile with literally hundreds of other servers involving stocks that are still up?

Including literally the WSB discord that used to be linked in the subreddit!

> To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks. Discord welcomes a broad variety of personal finance discussions, from investment clubs and day traders to college students and professional financial advisors. We are monitoring this situation and in the event there are allegations of illegal activities, we will cooperate with authorities as appropriate.

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https://discord.me/server/join/protected/c3fe5f4361

That server was vile. And not because of WSB tongue-in-cheek "retard" "gay-bear" stuff, just actual hateful usage of racial slurs actual, homophobia not just based on using certain words, and more

Your narrative that this is a response to "stock pumping" is completely off base.

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There's proof for my side... Discord said they were banned from getting tons of reports.

There's no proof for a narrative where Discord self-censors over an intentionally vague tweet about social media and stocks.

"We deleted the server to not implicate ourselves in a tool of securities fraud" would have been a pretty damn good reason by itself... no need to lie about that.

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If enough upset people crying over their banned cesspool downvote you, you can't reply to comments anymore :)

I guess in the face of your lack of even "proof", I'm brazenly suggesting that having an admin saying ni*er hundreds of times will get your server banned.

Reply-reply (not sure what the purpose of the edit was?):

Clearly discord doesn't want to actively suggest illegal activity happened on their platform, so they're not going to state that as their reason.

I guess in the face of your "proof", I'm brazenly suggesting that this marks the first time in history a corporate PR department has lied about the company's motivations.

I think the user clarified elsewhere, that there were 2 discord servers, and this particular one ended up hosting some genuinely vile speech.

To be clear, the one banned is the only WSB discord server with an active connection to the subreddit. The other one is a legacy server run by a former moderator who was banned for using the /r/WSB for personal gain. It's much less active these days (although people are flocking to it now that the active one is banned). It's not like we're talking about two equal servers where one is offensive and one isn't.

This is ignoring the fact that during the most prominent times WSB experienced prior to this, including when they crossed 1M subs, that was the main discord server the subreddit was linked to.

The other server is (or was) 100% more tame, and at the time experienced more traffic than the one that was just banned (obviously this changed once the link was removed).

There was no way you were going to find a mod spamming the n-word, in fact people were regularly banned for using slurs.

I mean being founded by the guy who was running the sub, it was in line with the subreddit, edgy, but with nuggets of clarity and an understanding that it's possible to take things too far.

Obviously the answer is the large volume of eyeballs (or eardrums in this case) and attention on the server that was banned.

I'm not sure how you would know whether they were being genuine in their stated reason (unless you work for discord?) but obviously the timing strains credulity for many. There's no proof on either side here, so I'd prefer to stop arguing.