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Commercial-Brief9458 t1_jdcr2zi wrote

I was waiting for someone to finally say this. If anything, he was laughing at the absurdity of it all. I'm alarmed to conclude that this website is full of children now, and has been diluted to the point where very little can be extracted amidst the noise.

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pofwiwice t1_jdcswqc wrote

I mean IIRC before the apes arrived we had a few hundred thousand members I think? Now there’s 13 million+

Insane dilution. Actually makes me a little sad to think about.

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qazwer001 t1_jdczjjx wrote

When it was below 100k the subreddit theme added a digit to subscriber count. I joined when there were 13k or so degenerate gamblers. I miss the good old days of penny stocks and fscomeau or however his username is spelt. He was a paper trading fraud but still. Good times.

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