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ooli  ·  1153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk WSB, Gamestop and the rules of the game

WSB subreddit is data mined by quantitative fund to try to get some value out of it.

On the day GME reached $100+, wsb was spammed by obvious bot about some other stocks ( NOK, BB, etc)

The community think that that originated from the shorts on GME (Melvin) trying to divert the attention away from GME.

I suspect, part of the spam bot come from basic users trying to influence the hivemind,

but also some Quant fund trying to feed false information to other quant fund.

I suspect, Quand fund use the tactic on all social plateform (hence the number of bot on twitter) not much to drive interest on a stock but to feed unusable noise to the concurrence

(but I have to admit I'm a bit paranoid, and of course really really retarded)

My point is.. half the mention of tickers on wsb are from bot! The problem is knowing which half