Well, on the flip side a lot of redditors learned from the school of hard knocks, which is the best teacher in a lot of ways. Moderators suppressing posts won't teach a lesson you can only learn by losing money.
It’s extremely difficult to find any posts or comments critical of GameStop in the sub right now. If you sort by new, the critical comments are quickly removed.
Moderators aren’t just letting Redditors figure it out. They’re shaping the conversation into the illusion of a consensus.
Edit: looks like emojis are stripped
But maybe non frontpage posts are better.
Sure, there's a large contingent that denies this and holds onto their wishful thinking of a $10,000/share price, but you can't fix stupid.
They seem to monitor this threads on HN and downvote anything that doesn't fit their HF "deep state" narrative.
OR its likely that "smart" HN users bought into the hype and they are fully bought into the narrative that blames external factors than their own due diligence.
I skimmed your comment history. Many of your comments are creating narrative from thin air - no different from the worst Qanon offender where there might be some fact but your spin is not. Tying in political arguments (like I just did) is also poor form IMHO. Many of your comments mention downvoting, which is a seriously bad smell to me. At the level of an individual comment, mentioning voting is usually an automatic downvote from me, and I presume others. Relevant HN guidelines: “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”, “Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.”
Edit: I am not saying your comments lack truth, I am just saying that it matters how you write it down.
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.
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.
That seems very risky. The mods are certainly identifiable, and the SEC will be investigating.
However, when to they’ve become completely invested (some times literally) in the narrative that GME was going to make them all rich while the hedge funds went bankrupt, it’s difficult to admit that they were wrong.