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And the violation bots are gone. Seems back to normal and people are behaving.
yeah, eerily quiet on the violation table... the bots aren't gone, they just aren't allowed to auto-unpublish anymore since there were way too many false positives. Even with that, more shifts from mods and some of our superusers helping is making a big difference from what I can tell... but it seems like it was a few weeks of complaints / pains while we fumbled through. Dev team is still super busy building more mod tools to help us track members over time and get in some more automated warnings and potentially part time block, but after blocking a few users the number of violations has plummeted (no thanks to you for creating controversial threads on Ye ;)
still lots of work to do...
haha the Ye thread didn’t seem like politics or religion so I posted it - lol - cheers 🍻
Make the iPad app usable on landscape mode! Yeesh it’s horrible on portrait.
It's an average Tuesday evening in NYC. You walk back to your $2.5k 500 sq ft Murray Hill apartment to finish turning comments all night at home. You take a seat on your $300 dollar foam mattress you got out of a box on amazon. "Ahh man" you sigh to yourself. "what am I even doing with my life." you begin to contemplate if your comp is worth the hours.
You decide to login to WSO as an escape of the monotony of your life. You scroll through the recent discussions to see if there's anything that catches your eye. You take a look at a recent "IB Rankings" shit post to see if your bank is considered prestigious. It's listed in "Garbage/Just KYS" tier. "Oh well" you think as you check your bank account to convince yourself that you're still doing okay relative to other 23 yr olds.
You keep scrolling through the recent discussions. You come across 'College Senior Seeking Advice' and you think back to the times when you were a scared naive college student still trying to break into banking. You write a thoughtful and kind response to this new monkey seeking help. You offer the best tips that you wish you would have known back when you were a college student. You post your comment and smile knowing that perhaps you actually provided useful information to someone in need. "Ahh, WSO is in fact paradise."
You then go back to work and spend the next few hours moving logos and changing font sizes. Needing a break, you reopen your WSO tab. Your gut sinks as you see your seemingly helpful comment to that college student has received 11 monkey shits. Not knowing what could have provoked this you reread your post and confirm with yourself that all your comment included was real helpful tips for how to prepare for interviews and network efficiently. The comments below your comment call you a "non-target snowflake lib who didn't go to a target pre-school and wasn't smart enough to go into SWE." Other comments call you a virgin for not earning $140k base as an analyst 1. "What the heck" you say out loud. "I was just trying to be helpful."
A few moments later you check back on your comment to see it has been flagged and removed for antisemitism and inciting violence against Ukrainians. You sit back in your seat and remember that all is well and accept this is the new WSO and it is paradise.
Basically. It’s fun when new posters who admit they are in college and are not verified tell me how to manage my corp dev team. Only on WSO…
So true. Love when prospects pick fights about factual things too
I feel personally attacked... But had to laugh... Well done
How this thread should have started. Thanks.
I feel like WSO peaked 10-12 years ago when I was using this in college
We're just getting started, not even 17 years old yet, in our junior year of high school, taking the university data from the company database, readjusting it for student population and hardo factor (brings NYU down the rankings a bit) and planning out how to truly become a master of the online community, financial modeling training universe. Still so young with so much potential ahead of it. 😁
For real though, what is next for the platform, anything you can disclose?
Don’t go the Reddit route and pander to liberals/the left as you sell out. Keep finance conservative and let us talk our shit here.
Love your username
But is it GAAP or non-GAAP adjustments? The people need to know!
A fellow old timer. I agree, until we see the likes of Brady4MPV again it will never come back to its former glory
Did he ever get into HBS?
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/e-mail-from-hbs-14-buddy
Also, we can't forget the legend that is Eddie Braverman. WallStreetOasis.com AndyLouis do we have any idea how Eddie has been or what he's been up to? How he's fared through covid, etc.? His posts are a big reason I joined the site and have stuck around for so long and have given me a sense that I should help give back.
It peaked right around the time Braverman went off the air
:( -- bring back old WSO... the nostalgia, the happy hrs at galway hooker, NSFW with Eddie and Midas. fun times.
That, and now they have Pizz's great relationship/life advice on here too now
This is true. Pizz has only been around for 8yrs, or in what I'd call "newer WSO"...
Newer WSO = Better WSO
Why do I already have a violation? How many violations until you're banned?? Don't ban me please---I don't know what I'll do with my life!!!
I think the advice has changed in just the past 5 years. It used to be like there was this super rigid way of doing things. A lot of talk about networking, not getting blacklisted and pigeon holeing, and all that other stuff. It was like it was the end of the world if you did that, but now everyone keeps it a bit more real - like yeah go ahead and ditch your current job if it makes you happy and there's a clear benefit -it's not the end of the world and nobody's ever going to not hire you again if you do.
Off topic is still a good place for general career advice, such as don't go into commercial banking (jk, kinda).
It does seem that way, although I think that's a reflection of the times and general career advice these days vs back then, both on and off WSO.
Why not commercial banking? (serious question)
Absolutely nothing wrong with it depending on your career goals and what you're looking for in a job. It just wasn't for me.
Not even gonna lie WSO has definitely instilled a sense of drive and standards that I wouldn't have had without this website coming from a semi-target where people aren't that corporate career driven. Hoping that continues throughout my career.
That’s awesome!
Patrick faced a pretty difficult challenge here and pivot'd fast. Kudos to him and his team.
Thank you. We're trying :-)
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