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And for good reason, the exhibition business was consolidating, with Cineworld almost acquiring Cineplex, ultimately thwarted by COVID.

I understand this sentiment, but please be patient with the subreddit. I believe there are bright days ahead.

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.

> 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.

If you mean that posts that don't align with the hivemind get downvoted to the point of being hidden, then yes, that is true. It's how reddit's voting system works.

In the short term, it is possible for mob mentality to take over, but in the long term, you will see this fade and WSB will return to a point where there's a little (but not much) more nuance to the conversation.

If you meant that "the forum" as in "the moderators" delete things that do not align with the echo chamber, then you are incorrect. On an absolute basis, more pro-"meme stock" content is removed than anti-"meme stock". You can verify this yourself with PRAW, or simply by refreshing /new.

With 175MM+ pageviews yesterday alone, I'm sure they're ecstatic about WSB's growth.

This chapter in WSB has brought forth substantially better communication with the admins than we'd ever had in the past, including a direct line to Alexis.

Edit:

Thank you all for the outpour of support!

Our main challenges thus far have been technical (hitting API limits, automoderator backlog, etc.) however, those issues have now been resolved and our bots are running better than ever before.

We largely owe our success in handling this to the Reddit engineering team who has routinely stepped up and fixed things. As chaotic as the scene has been for us moderators, I'm sure they have been under much more pressure. If you know a reddit engineer, please give them your thanks as they have done a phenomenal job.

For those curious, the surge in activity broke a number of things. Here are just a few:

> modmail surpassing 80,000+ messages resulting in modmail going down

> constant threads hitting 100,000 comments resulting in slow loading site-wide

> automoderator getting backlogged and taking 30+ minutes to parse comments leading to terrible comments getting through.

All these issues are now resolved, so once again, big thanks to the Reddit engineering team!