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View submission: Inadvertent brigading of r/options when r/wallstreetbets went private Jan 27 2021
This sounds like a situation that could permanently change the culture of your sub.
Personally, I would consider putting a freeze on all posting for a couple of days, get everyone's attention, and re-establish the ground rules and expectations for participating in the sub.
Comment by redtexture at 28/01/2021 at 06:08 UTC
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It may well.
A 40,000 member increase in the last 12 hours, and 125,000 in three days, to now to 530,000 is a problem.
I suspect we will be at 600,000 in a week.
We do have a welcome message pointing out rules, resources, and a strong guidelines regime, stable automod setup, and the now 60% population has consistently indicated that they want a quality subreddit.
The present euphoria about certain stocks, which has international attention in financial markets, includes the present long time member population, and we would have a revolt and instant new alternative subreddit if we did what you suggest this week.
So, not going to happen.
We have weathered similar events, and we're better prepared than we ever were in the past, yet we know we have some work to do to maintain the culture, and will probably need several more moderators.
The immediate event, r/WallStreetBets going private ended after a couple of hours, so that aspect has faded, but we need to be able to handle future events like it.