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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by encom on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:11AM (#25955483)
>The only thing the executives at reddit care about is revenue and hence impressions

Oh please. If that was true, they wouldn't have banned TheDonald, especially so close to the election. That sub drove a huge amount of traffic.

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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by belorn on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:54AM (#25956362)
If we are talking money incentives, a community that are discussing stock investments seems more interesting for advertisement than politics. If a person are investing in stock options, it almost guarantied that they have spare money.
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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by Darmody on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:30AM (#25955932)
Everything surrounding TD subreddit was getting out of hand so they had to act to look like the good guys who care about stuff.
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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by colinmhayes on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:18AM (#25955850)
They know they have more to lose by pissing off the community.
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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by llampx on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:44AM (#25956296)
The Donald subreddit was big, but the writing was on the wall that Trump was about to lose, and /r/politics + /r/SandersforPresident + /r/AOC have always been bigger and more popular. It was a very easy decision for reddit.
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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by beaner on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:49AM (#25959331)
The user count on r/thedonald was frozen as to not influence popularity, you are likely wrong about their relative size.
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