https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ry9yub/mod_of_wsb_removed_after_deleting_gamestop/
created by DillonMeSoftly on 07/01/2022 at 15:28 UTC*
540 upvotes, 28 top-level comments (showing 25)
This is a developing story and still very fresh so please bear with me.
Gamestop (GME) is up today by between 10-20% (EDIT: large fluctuations in price happening) after announcing plans for an NFT marketplace. One of the more active mods on WSB stickied a post to the daily discussion thread noting he was removing all GME related spam and suggesting that they post on one of the numerous subreddits for the stock.
Here's his self-post advising of his removal as mod[1]. This is also confirmed by the sidebar of WSB, where said user is no longer of the mod team list.
1: https://www.reddit.com/user/zjz/comments/ry9jgo/was_removed_as_a_mod_of_rwallstreetbets_by_oip/
Finally, here's the daily thread[2] where many users are either praising or admonishing the decision to remove him
EDIT: Post from another mod[3] regarding the issue at hand
Comment by OnsetOfMSet at 07/01/2022 at 17:30 UTC
194 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Funny how shill is originally defined as those who offer unhealthy, obsessive levels of praise or worship to specific companies or corporations, but in that place you're labeled the shill for... *checks notes* not praising and worshiping one particular company?
Comment by JayRoo83 at 07/01/2022 at 17:05 UTC
311 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Timeline for those not up to speed with the WSB/GME drama:
1.) WSB has like ~1 million members
2.) One dude nails a prediction and makes a ton
3.) WSB follows with his trade and exit at the peak for the most part
4.) 9 million new idiots calling themselves apes show up and buy the top then start like 4 conspiracy subs convinced that a company everyone hated the month before the squeeze is the ticket to millions and the end of their shitty retail/service jobs
5.) Apes lose 75% of their money over a year while creating more and more elaborate conspiracy theories
6.) They return to announce the MOASS (mother of all short squeezes where GME goes to $50,000,000+ a share) is finally here thanks to one +20% AH session after dumping 50% in a week or two which then sells off immediately at open the next day
7.) Mod says "fuck you, you guys ruined WSB" to the apes and gets de-modded by the other mods
Comment by DogOfDreams at 07/01/2022 at 17:14 UTC
127 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Maybe I'm just misrembering because I've been avoiding WSB like the plague since it went stupid but wasn't zjz one of the really good mods that the subreddit once went to bat for after he previously got removed?
He was probably totally in the right for removing GME spam. The GME apes are the worst when it comes to spamming and brigading.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/01/2022 at 16:35 UTC
373 upvotes, 5 direct replies
WSB is boring now. SuperStonk is QAnon for the financial markets & its fucking delectable.
Comment by 1sagas1 at 07/01/2022 at 17:34 UTC
178 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Gamestop (GME) is up today by between 10-20% after announcing plans for an NFT marketplace
Its up like 4% today right now and down 8% this week lol
Comment by [deleted] at 07/01/2022 at 17:49 UTC*
67 upvotes, 2 direct replies
A company that mandates their employees to badger customers into buying a game warranty they don't need, has random funkopop and other plastic junk in the middle of their stores is thinking about NFTs? I am shocked i tell you.
Comment by mediumredbutton at 07/01/2022 at 15:38 UTC
309 upvotes, 7 direct replies
GameStop, nfts and WSB. Truly hope everyone involved goes broke.
Comment by IceNein at 07/01/2022 at 19:40 UTC
33 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Honestly, GameStop selling NFTs only makes me more sure that they'll be gone within 10 years.
Comment by thisismynewacct at 07/01/2022 at 17:38 UTC
29 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Wasn’t zjz one of the beloved mods during the sub founders monetization kerfuffle before he was removed?
Comment by Scotts_Thot at 07/01/2022 at 15:49 UTC
128 upvotes, 10 direct replies
r/gme_meltdown is an excellent subreddit if you’re a meme stock drama rubbernecker like I am.
Honestly it is unbelievable that Reddit has continued to allow gme/amc to fester like this.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/01/2022 at 19:27 UTC
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 08/01/2022 at 00:33 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Man, we just need a new 1ronyman...or a "Guh" moment.
Or some guy investing in gourds.
Comment by Nadril at 07/01/2022 at 16:14 UTC
27 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I really didn't think the GME bros could get more obnoxious and now there are NFT's involved.
Comment by morethantits at 07/01/2022 at 18:24 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Quick clarification, nothing was announced by the company. There was just a WSJ article that compiled info that was public and known about for months.
Comment by Vinniam at 07/01/2022 at 20:19 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's been an entire year, do these people have nothing better to do?
Comment by NorthNorthSalt at 08/01/2022 at 07:58 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I’m going to take this as the final nail in this very weary coffin, RIP to what was once one of the best and most entertaining subreddits on this site.
WSB saw a precipitous drop in quality almost immediately after it was featured on every news outlet after the GME incident. Then again it’s hard to not see a drop in quality when your sub count count increases tenfold effectively overnight
Comment by KimonoK at 08/01/2022 at 03:49 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The thread is also heavily brigaded as when I first saw his (zjz's) messages, they were at a solid +100 and now they are -400.
Comment by LiamtheV at 08/01/2022 at 01:07 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
But the real question is, is this good for Bitcoin?
Comment by Nillix at 07/01/2022 at 19:46 UTC
6 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This post is four hours old and instead of being up 20% it’s up…2.
When will all these people realize they’ve been had?
Comment by Our_GloriousLeader at 09/01/2022 at 01:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Gamestop (GME)...after announcing plans for an NFT marketplace
It's marks all the way down.
Comment by tumultuousness at 10/01/2022 at 14:59 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Looks like they just got added back to the team.
Comment by DubStep-X at 07/01/2022 at 17:01 UTC
-2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It was up for no news...
The nft news were released 10 minutes after it started moving up aftermarket.
Comment by David-E at 07/01/2022 at 16:22 UTC
-29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Please remember that people are engaging in rational self interest and their profit seeking behavior is normal under our current economic system. The goal is to acquire money, and they will use memes, hype, fomo, and more to create conditions that may increases their wealth. Action or language that is perceived harmful by these people, whether it is by governments, strawmen, or real people, must be opposed if profit is potentially affected; nothing else really matters, and it would be the same with other things they may own like NFTs, slaves, and means of production.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/01/2022 at 17:10 UTC
-30 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by Retiredape at 07/01/2022 at 18:11 UTC
-26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Zjz has been an asshole who's steered content away from GME regardless of whether the content followed the rules or not. A non-neutral mod is by definition corrupt and should have been removed half a year ago.
If the sub wanted to ban gme discussion the could literally just put it in their rules.