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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by ev1 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:14AM (#25943004)
This one is probably closer to my guess, it would be difficult to moderate half a million new users in a day with an existing mod base, and you can't really just hand out permissions to random memers saying "I'll help moderate" without risking that some nonzero amount of them will just cause havoc anyway.
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by ansible on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:17AM (#25944211)
Yes. The only thing I'd suggest is to call for volunteers from "sane" subreddits that seem to have a good moderation policy and reasonable moderators.

The problem there is that the above people are already likely quite busy, and don't want to take on an additional (unpaid) burden by trying to clean up a sub they don't really care about.

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