WSO Mods Are Editing Your Words Now
Maybe I missed a memo or something, but I was shocked to see just now that WSO mods edited one of my posts to make it more PC. No notification to me, or to readers of hte post. New low in terms of the excessive censorship on the site.
The edit is below. It was on the topic of the low % of women in hedge funds. Totally wild that they would do this.
Based on the most helpful WSO content, moderation practices on WSO have been a topic of significant discussion. Recent updates indicate that WSO has implemented stricter moderation tools, including automated flagging systems like Hive moderation, which flag or unpublish posts based on potential violations. Additionally, moderators have been given tools to review flagged content and either remove it or allow it to remain.
While there is no explicit mention in the context about mods editing posts for political correctness (PC), there have been complaints about overreach in moderation, such as removing posts or comments deemed controversial or likely to lead to violations. For example, posts about affirmative action or other sensitive topics have been removed to avoid excessive moderation burdens. This aligns with the broader concerns about censorship and the balance between maintaining open communication and enforcing community guidelines.
If your post was edited without notification, it might be worth reaching out to the WSO mod team directly for clarification.
Sources: WSO is removing posts about affirmative action., New WSO Moderation Efforts [Updates Here], New WSO Moderation Efforts [Updates Here]
They can answer me here.
I don't agree with you on anything, but I'd rather hear your thoughts and form the opinion myself than have this PC police interject.
Fully think this is stepping way over the line and mods shouldn't have anything to do with editing our posts.
Disgusting
95% of your posts are far right trolls and they are still up. Almost nothing you have is remotely on topic / finance related and it's not even clear you work in the industry anymore.
Just seems a bit farfetched to think something rather innoucous is now a target of censorship. Odds are you either are making this up for attention or were a dick to one too many mods and they are just messing with you.
No one else has this problem...
You're not smart enough to realize how dumb it would be for me to make this up. Read the other comments, bright guy. You have time to post on a Saturday night, so take the time to read.
Your posts are cringe, but yeah that’s extremely not cool on WSO’s part and I hope they do something about this
And now they've moved this to another forum to take the attention off of it.
@WallStreetOasis.com if you guys want to take down entire posts that's one thing, at least people will know it happened. This kind of editing goes far beyond what any other site does.
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