Showing up as a blank page for me. Fascinating.
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All views are my own and poorly reasoned.
Reddit recently updated its top mod removal process (recently as in 5 days ago) and dramatically weakened requirements for removing top mods.
More information on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/xwim7v/updates_to_...
The context is more around how communities should be able to naturally transition as opposed to only doing so during event-driven periods of great distress (E.g. r/AntiWork -> r/WorkReform).
There doesn't seem to be much post-summit discussion about it that I can find. I suspect because it's largely been overshadowed by other, more... spicy, topics.
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But how do you assess progress when you remove all desire to monetize?
I run r/WallStreetBets and "quality" is an extremely nebulous term.
I look for things like "novelty", "thought-provoking / well reasoned commentary", "original content", "authenticity", "self-awareness" or "primary research". But these are human assessed metrics.
Some more easily measurable metrics might include, "length of submissions", or "number of outbound links excluding blacklisted domains". Or even "number of tickers or quality-correlated keywords mentioned".
All these metrics have very clear downsides, and if generally well-known, become useless. Interestingly, a score too high can also result in something being unlikely to be authentic.
Another challenge is your relationship with users. Surprisingly, moderators are not innately adversarial to users, they can also promote content through other channels (discord, twitter) or sticky threads for a viewership boost.
So, even without a profit motive, what do you do?
I think this actually falls in line with most subreddits. You build or support a community because you want to discuss something and there isn't anywhere else to do it.
This is kind of a loose interpretation of the "gets a lot of attention" requirement though.
You are confused. This has nothing to do with WSB.
What you are describing happened solely on r/SuperStonk or the other GME subreddits.
WSB has never had a child moderator.
That culture shift extends well beyond WSB, but I think its at least somewhat less obvious here. In my experience, most of the time when people throw out price targets, at most they're predicting a 20%, 25% move, and not the 10x, 100x, or 10,000x you see elsewhere.
I don't think there's really a way, from a moderation perspective at least, to take the dreamers out of the equation... other then waiting and letting them get blown up by their high risk plays.
And just a note, r/wallstreetbets hasn't allowed penny stocks, crypto, or NFTs for many years. (NFTs never)
If admins wanted to disappear a viewpoint, it would be a lot easier to just autosuspend the accounts, or shadowban without a trace.
For example, in the voice chats, its great when users follow up with one another on their trades, or know each other's specialties so they can call them to provide insight.
On the other hand, deemphasizing the user makes it more about the content and less about the person creating that content, which at best avoids bandwagoning and the whole "I called $foo, so listen to me when I say buy $bar".
It is very unlikely (I hope) that this environment will happen again.
Nonetheless, can you express exactly what it is that "just [isn't] the same anymore"?
I think r/wallstreetbets is still a fantastic place and more or less true to its purpose of finding interesting and novel trades.
Much of the discussion has expanded, to discord (600K users, the limit) as well as the daily reddit talks (Think clubhouse but for reddit).
The daily thread is still fantastic for a very quick list of interesting topics, which you can jump into and have a conversation with anyone.
There still remains a decent sense of camraderie, but there are definitely fewer recognizable names amongst the volume of comments. More time being invested into handing out unique flairs will help with this
Weekday meme restrictions over the past week has largely undone all the damage to the main feed and brought back a larger array of high quality discussion.
Predictions add an interesting dimension to the subreddit where all users can participate regardless of personal wealth.
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So overall, I'd say it's going very well. There seems to be a significant amount of misconceptions both in the general population, as well as even our regular users, but as long as we continue to do the right thing and protect discussion quality, people will slowly but surely see the light.
It's located on a page that you only visit once to set up the subreddit, or to make large subreddit changes. (On old reddit, not sure about new reddit)
To Reddit's credit, they have been adding new features over the years to help separate communities and ensure they are somewhat able to maintain their culture.
E.g. Crowd Control which limits the posting / commenting abilities of individual users based on their history or other heuristics.
However, you are onto something.
Almost every single post on r/MurderedByAOC is made by u/LrlOurPresident, and those posts hit the front page on a nearly daily basis.
It can stay that way, but it's a hard decision to untick these boxes: https://i.imgur.com/E2G9SUh.png
Too early and the sub dies, too late, and you'll wish it died.
A subreddit getting co-opted by the masses to change its intentions is a story as old as reddit. See my username for how I know that to be true.
Hopefully more subreddits will wake up and realize that being included in high activity feeds (r/all, popular) is not necessarily a good thing. We have.
> Speaking of unflattering stereotypes, let’s be blunt for a moment: Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people.
I wholeheartedly agree with this.
1. WSB was created before Robinhood was released.
2. WSB started as a place for people to discuss more risky strategies than what was being discussed on r/investing
3. Yes. There is no movement. WSB is not your personal army.
WSB is not, and has never been, the place to promote your art, especially when you're explicitly trying to raise awareness so you can sell it.
OP did the same thing with a gamedev book a year prior.
Easy ban.
The only time he ever came to WSB after 2016 was if someone approached him with a way to make money off the community. It's laughable that anyone would buy the rights to his story when he wasn't around at all.
If WSJ cared about integrity, they would put "DISGRACED" ahead of the word founder.
GME had it's own daily thread well into April, at which point it was still completely dominating with significantly lower quality discussion that extended outside the GME specific daily thread.
Once we ended the daily thread and asked people to move to r/GME or r/SuperStonk, people incorrectly assumed it was banned, and continued to repeat this narrative, despite our repeated mentions that it was not banned.
Also, the WSB mod team is more or less the same as it was in 2019 or earlier. The majority of the team has been around for 6+ years.
Still, the people complaining make it seem like the sub today looks the same as it did on January 28th, 2021.
I took a very cursory look at the front page just now and don't see a single post advocating a short squeeze. Maybe there's one or two mentions within the threads, but it's far from everywhere.
Can you provide some recent links?
You can take a look at mention trends [0] and see that most people are talking about stocks that have no "squeeze" story behind them.
You can also take a look at the rules [1] to see that market manipulation (like 95% of the GME discussion that goes on) is not allowed.
Finally you can take a look at the daily thread [2] and note that within the top 1,500 comments, only two mention the word "squeeze".
[0]: https://www.quiverquant.com/wallstreetbets/
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/about/rules
[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/silx0h/dail...