Mods randomly take down the Penn controversy post?

There was objectively nothing wrong with the OP, they were already deleting comments from people on either side of the argument that weren't particularly spicy, and now the whole thing is just gone? What rules were violated? How is anyone supposed to know what can/can't be discussed about this particular topic? 

Considering it's about 3 schools that are hyper-relevant to recruiting in this industry for both undergrad/MBA, it seems ridiculous to think that it's not something that would be open for discussion. This current censorship/anti-Semitism issue could very well be a deciding factor for some people on this site for whether or not they attend a given school depending on the outcome for these faculty. 

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I think my original comment was removed but I am not sure.  I would also like to find out why it was removed.  The only aspect of the topic that I did not like was how alt accounts were distorting the view.  

 

It was removed today at 9:34am. I received this message:

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It was removed today at 9:34am. I received this message:

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You gave the mods too much work to do

 

And of course they won't cite WHICH of the TOC were being violated. Just nebulously claims that it happened but I saw comments removed, such as financeabc's, that definitely didn't. Mods here are starting to degrade to FB/IG-tier. That or they're just lazy.

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The best days of WSO are behind us. From now on it will be typical matured business - policing comments and selling as many courses as they can before their inevitable exit

 

Yes this site peaked about five years ago.  The fact that you can’t mention the ethnic cleansing of Palestine without getting booted is proof of that.  Patrick is going to sell the site to some bullshit company like factset or whatever.  They don’t want open dialogue, they want sales.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Bruh I just want to hear people's takes on Ackman. Sounds like he tried to pull his corporate activism playbook on the Harvard board and it didn't work

 

Oh it will.  The university is just trying to stake out some kind of independce.  The issue they have is their returns have been dogshit the past 10 years and pretty much all of their "gains" have come in the form of donations.  

 

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