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Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#26016793)
WSB moderators were (and still are) actively suppressing posts that don’t toe the line. I had a seasoned Reddit account that had been in WSB for a long time. As soon as I started commenting about how the short squeeze wasn’t a sure thing, my posts stopped showing up. They’ve been dismissing any comments that aren’t about GME going to the moon as hedge fund shills or bots.

It’s extremely difficult to find any posts or comments critical of GameStop in the sub right now. If you sort by new, the critical comments are quickly removed.

Moderators aren’t just letting Redditors figure it out. They’re shaping the conversation into the illusion of a consensus.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by mywittyname on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:05PM (#26016839)
I had to unsub (having been a member for years) because my homepage was full of, "WE ARE HOLDING:diamond: :hands:!!!!I :diamond: LOVE :hands: THIS :diamond: STOCK :rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket:" posts with 50k upvotes and a list of gold a mile long.

Edit: looks like emojis are stripped

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by thuganalyst on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:10PM (#26016910)
Same here. I used to love talking shit on WSB. Unfortunately that can’t happen anymore since the culture has changed completely. Long time members know just how awesome that community was, and I think it’ll never be the same.
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by WSB_Mod on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:01PM (#26017643)
I understand this sentiment, but please be patient with the subreddit. I believe there are bright days ahead.
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by tinyhouse on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:11PM (#26016934)
This is exactly the problem. Every thread has 1000s of comments and it's very hard to find the good ones since 90%, including many of the most upvoted ones, are garbage. Cannot blame them given the 7M members who joined the sub in 2 weeks. For now I stick to r/stocks.
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by gowld on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:20PM (#26017074)
All I know about /r/stocks is that since last week wsb-style GME junk posts are spamming /r/popular.

But maybe non frontpage posts are better.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by WSB_Mod on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:29PM (#26017221)
> WSB moderators were (and still are) actively suppressing posts that don’t toe the line.

We remove far more pro-"meme stock" content than anti-"meme stock". Your anecdote is just that, a single data point. All you need to do is pull the data yourself and you would see that, but instead you are taking personal offence to your content being removed.

At this point, almost all content that is removed, is done automatically, either using Reddit's crowd control algorithm, or using our (countless) content flags.

We also revised posting requirements countless times. You may very well have been cleared to post yesterday, but not today.

If you are willing to post your username, I can look into it for you.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:47PM (#26017452)
How do you keep a day job and also moderate?
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by WSB_Mod on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:53PM (#26017538)
Prior to January it was quite easy. It just takes an hour or two each day to improve the bots and handle the manual stuff.

The past two weeks were very difficult but the entire moderator team has stepped up to the challenge, in particular u/zjz.

Unfortunately, the stress of moderation continues even away from reddit. Even during social events at work, WSB comes up frequently. Personally, I took a few days off.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:07PM (#26016859)
I disagree. Just this morning I saw a number of posts warning people that they could lose their shirts over this and to be sure that they weren't investing anything they couldn't afford to lose.

Sure, there's a large contingent that denies this and holds onto their wishful thinking of a $10,000/share price, but you can't fix stupid.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by compiler-guy on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:09PM (#26016899)
You can’t fix stupid, but you don’t have to lead it on either.
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by thuganalyst on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:12PM (#26016939)
Even if posts/comments critical of GME make it through, they will get downvoted to oblivion. WSB has become just another giant echo chamber.
Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by f430 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:16PM (#26017018)
its bleeding on to HN as well. Just take a look at my comments that criticize their conspiracy theory.

They seem to monitor this threads on HN and downvote anything that doesn't fit their HF "deep state" narrative.

OR its likely that "smart" HN users bought into the hype and they are fully bought into the narrative that blames external factors than their own due diligence.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by robocat on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:07PM (#26017707)
I suggest you start to treat the hn community a little less defiantly: to me your attitude seems contemptuous and condescending. If you humbly listen to downvotes then perhaps you will start to see good reasons for reader’s reactions to your comments.

I skimmed your comment history. Many of your comments are creating narrative from thin air - no different from the worst Qanon offender where there might be some fact but your spin is not. Tying in political arguments (like I just did) is also poor form IMHO. Many of your comments mention downvoting, which is a seriously bad smell to me. At the level of an individual comment, mentioning voting is usually an automatic downvote from me, and I presume others. Relevant HN guidelines: “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”, “Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data.”

Edit: I am not saying your comments lack truth, I am just saying that it matters how you write it down.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by rootusrootus on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:50PM (#26017499)
> Moderators aren’t just letting Redditors figure it out. They’re shaping the conversation into the illusion of a consensus.

That seems very risky. The mods are certainly identifiable, and the SEC will be investigating.

Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by mam2 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:14PM (#26016991)
they've been heavily moderating through bots. i really don't think they saw your message at all.