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		bhl on Jan 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit we... For numbers, r/wsb had around 2.3m yesterday morning (Wednesday 3 am) and now has 4.3m members, so that's a jump of 2 million new in less than a day.

nairboon on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

A big chunk of that are simply bot accounts. There has been a surge of new accounts spamming the sub and trying to manipulate people into selling.

ClumsyPilot on Jan 28, 2021 | [–]

This is very much not suspicious or illegal, and not being reported anywhere

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