Reddit Inc.'s stock-trading enthusiasts made it a household name by backing companies that Wall Street wouldn’t. For Reddit’s own initial public offering, a group of them are about to flip the script.

In the days after the social-media company filed for an IPO, thousands of members of the WallStreetBets forum — which boasts around 15 million users and helped popularize meme stocks like GameStop Corp. — voted to boost a forum post about shorting the company, a sharp reversal of their typically bullish ways. Their avowed reasons varied from the company’s lack of profitability to competitive concerns, and mostly centered on spite.

(paywalled on Bloomberg website)

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    8 months ago

    Think account age also had to do with it.

    Been getting spammed on the email I have tied to the account I registered to squat my “real” online name. Think I made a grand total of one comment on that account something like a decade ago.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah I think it’s age too. I had 100k-ish fake internet points on a 13 year old account and got 2 messages about it, but not until last week. I think they’ve been Working their way down a list by account age.

      Slightly tempted to throw a couple hundred bucks at out for lols.

      I think todays the deadline though.