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Some Redditors set their sights on silver after GameStop frenzy (Other Redditors have pushed back against that claim - all the details in the article)
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Lol okay, not even a warning in the thread title. Good luck y'all.
Yeah this smells rank. That post's old at this point. Wallstreetbets has hard turned against silver, yet media keeps it propped up? Shame on them for pushing this story, and the mods should be clearer about the context. Anything less is promoting mis-information by omission. The thread needs a title change. I don't have any skin in the game with GME. It just seems wrong to let this sort of information go unchecked.
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It's crazy how they're just blaming it on people trying to keep the gains. I have zero gme stock lmao.
Read the comments to get a view on what the arguments are. Reddit generally overlaps a ton with people that want to go back to the gold standard, and this is a holdover from Reddit basically replacing Digg (which was ground zero for the Ron Paul support). Really weird libertarian angle shows its ass from time to time.
Yup, that talk is pathetic. They sound like a bunch of Trumpers or they're 14.
It's as they say, they're the 4chan of the stock market.
It isn't a conspiracy to say people tend to talk up their own investments. Lots of people are trying to create a bounce for their preferred stocks.
The staff communication here sets a really ugly precedent. For the two links they've posted which are already days old at this point, there's dozens more posts with exponentially more upvotes (if that's the metric we're using) that are more recent that point out the issue with the "silver hype".
This is unfortunately fake news we're letting pass.
This is unfortunately fake news we're letting pass.
User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory Trolling; Long History and Numerous Prior Bans for Inflammatory Behavior
OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION: Buy silver!
Yeah... those 2 old links in the staff communication have between 4k-15k upvotes each. One of them came from a new account and has since been deleted. Compared to the 100k+ upvotes on the anti-SLV thread on main page and that's just the first one I clicked on.
Like I get it, WSB is not a monolith. But they are also clearly not pushing SLV like the media is saying they are.
Like I get it, WSB is not a monolith. But they are also clearly not pushing SLV like the media is saying they are.
Lmao. At least this thread is funny!
Still, the buzz was enough to push silver to a multi-year high.
My sense is that staff communication doesn't have a firm perspective on the size of WSB to make the temperature check it thinks it's making.
"There's hundreds of people in there talking about how it's a good idea" To be clear, the subreddit regularly has 1m-500k users reported active on it at any time and active posts regularly have 1k+ comments, the proof posted are indicators that this doesn't even register as minority opinion on the board.
User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory Trolling
Guys, the origin for the story in the OP is literally a 92 post thread on the ResetERA Gaming forum. There's dozens of people in there talking about how Dark Souls 2 is actually the best Soulsborne game. Here's the thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/lt...ark-souls-2-best-souls-2-kind-of-guys.366275/ Here's another: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ya...s-most-definitely-the-best-souls-game.135500/
Everyone needs to remember that ResetERA isn't a monolith and that there's a contingent of people on ERA who have a lot of praise for DS1/BB who need public perception to stay up to validate their opinion, so it's in their best interest to say this thread never existed even though it clearly does. It's not fake news, that it's fake is the lie.
Everyone needs to remember that ResetERA isn't a monolith and that there's a contingent of people on ERA who have a lot of praise for DS1/BB who need public perception to stay up to validate their opinion, so it's in their best interest to say this thread never existed even though it clearly does. It's not fake news, that it's fake is the lie.
The staff communication in the thread here is embarrassing - there are nearly 8 million readers subscribed on WSB, one or two 15k posts is hardly enough to justify a conclusion that the media has given to this "reddit shifts to silver" nonsense narrative
The bans in this thread too.
The message I'm getting here is "don't call out misinformation when you see it."
1: WSB is being astroturfed to hell and back right now.
2: MSM doesn't understand how Reddit works.
3: MSM could possibly be on the take as well. No way to know for sure, but it's possible.
4: What's happening with GME, AG, AA, etc - it's all gambling right now. It's not investment.
2: MSM doesn't understand how Reddit works.
3: MSM could possibly be on the take as well. No way to know for sure, but it's possible.
4: What's happening with GME, AG, AA, etc - it's all gambling right now. It's not investment.
Uh, aren't jokey posts that swap in a gaming theme to make a rhetorical point kind of a standby around here? C'mon, y'all.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but yesterday someone caught a two-week ban for saying what everyone in this thread is saying?
Staff decided to let these stupid stonk gambling threads continue, and then end up in the totally-not-problematic position of separating good information from bad, with apparently none of the expertise required to do so.
What the hell is happening here? What is the plan?
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No idea what the hell is going on around here.
Do we? I thought this was a fucking gaming forum, not an alternative advertising channel.
The staff communication isn't very professional if I'm going to be honest. Though at this point it doesn't look like the decision on how to handle this thread will be changed. If they have something to say, which it feels like they do they should just make a post.
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So Enforcer is still banned even after it's been pointed out they were clearly right, and rather than acting on it mods ban another poster for a joke about their own staff message which looks absurd now given what we know about the Reddit posts regarding buying silver. Did I miss anything? This is ridiculous. Y'all are embarrassing.
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Mods don't like being told they are wrong, this is nothing new. Just move along.
I'm not convinced that they even read the links they used as citation.
Why did he get banned for that post?
The protocol usually involves the user themselves being allowed to send a ticket (a newish process I think?) to try and repeal their ban. Any of us talking about it technically could catch a ban as well, as per the rules. So we'll probably never know. Just recounting what I've seen before and things mods have stated, I could be wrong.
Most of this stuff I've seen comes from the community feedback thread, which is tucked off in the Announcements forum.
SLV pumping on r/wsb was definitely a thing last week. There were several posts touting SLV, including the ones posted by the staff. They were heavily upvoted and heavily commented. Not saying all of r/wsb was all aboard but there was definitely support by some.
The problem is, that happened last week. The silver news from the media was being pushed today. Wallstreetbets currently has far more popular posts telling people not to buy silver. The story doesn't represent the current situation and it would be false to claim otherwise. The news outlets are wrong, and the mods are wrong.
This is probably the best course of action imo. Less drive by posting and low information speculating.
I agree with this. I'm tired of hopping around multiple threads which are pretty much talking about the same thing.
why are mods making a statement on this? why are people being banned? 'silver conspiracy theory'? fucking hell.