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.
Can someone explain the situation to me?
They went private for a little while due to bots spamming stock tickers that they want pumped and dumped. (Make people invest money in a random stock so they can sell when the price jumps, leaving the people who invested after the spamming , with a big loss of money.) This caused admins to reach out, like they did with The_Donald. Mods shut down the sub to clean it up. Now it's back open, they've been threatened with a ban.
Discord did ban them.