The most requested community in the past week: WallstreetBets
We've been following the situation, not wanting to release a WSB community without having their mods onboard. Well, we still don't have their mods on board. We talked to them in mid-2020, but never came to an agreement.
We hope that they don't get banned from Reddit (we'd pick up a good portion of that traffic, so don't do it, Steve.)
Having said that... the WSB Discord server just got banned (for hate, by the way), and it's very possible that the subreddit suffers the same fate...
Our unofficial WSB Win site:
https://wsbets.win/ or c/wsbets
We've had some well known WSB users reach out asking for us to set this up, and even some people who have been involved in the running of WSB, but to be very clear, this is NOT officially affiliated with the WSB subreddit (but we'll hand it over to them when they want it)
Update: WSB is NOT banned on Reddit. It's private, which is normally a decision by the moderators.
I just want to point out that I've been lurking at WSB for a while now and they deserve all the credit for what they are doing.
I like the fact that we've provided a lifeboat in case Reddit decides to squash them, but they are very much their own thing.
We may want to apply our own politics and culture to them, but they are apolitical and have their own culture.
They've exploded in membership to nearly 6 million in the last week, so if they came here - it'd be one hell of a stress-test on our systems. (edit - they're now up to nearly 7)
Mostly, I think we're projecting a bit too much on them. They are NOT political (certainly not as much as we are). They also get all the credit for what they've done. I've seen a lot of co-opting. Not cool.
Appreciation is more than justified, but they represent a victory at showing that another group of "experts" (this time in the financial community) are utterly full of shit. This is a good thing - but it's their thing.
Now, if Reddit fucks it up, then it could be 'our' thing - but we're just observers (for now).
Yeah, going to that sub and Trump-posting is a bad look.
Like, it might make it slightly easier to rig elections?