Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 8 months agoA lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1349arrow-down129cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-linkA lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.www.theverge.comSine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square52fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarekingthrillgore@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up28·8 months agoIt’s interesting the one place you aren’t seeing this discussed…is reddit. Which leads me to think it’s being suppressed to manipulate stock price. That’s illegal, right?
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoIllegal? Absolutely. Will they see any consequences for it is a different matter entirely, unfortunately.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoWill they? Not a chance. But any large group talking about shorting it might, just as we saw with GME/AMC.
minus-squareIlluminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoNot when the person doing it is white, male, and rich. Martha Stewart hit 2 of those marks, so off to prison she went.
It’s interesting the one place you aren’t seeing this discussed…is reddit. Which leads me to think it’s being suppressed to manipulate stock price. That’s illegal, right?
Illegal? Absolutely. Will they see any consequences for it is a different matter entirely, unfortunately.
Will they? Not a chance. But any large group talking about shorting it might, just as we saw with GME/AMC.
Not when the person doing it is white, male, and rich. Martha Stewart hit 2 of those marks, so off to prison she went.